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From: julien Beauviala <jul-lists@aaton.com>
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Subject: apache is seg faulting. why ?
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Hello, 

since about four days, the daily security logs are reporting 
the following :

> pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
> pid 74202 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
[etc... lots of lines]

When I look at /var/log/messages I find :

Jan 30 10:53:49 webserver /kernel: pid 20682 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
Jan 30 11:43:29 webserver /kernel: pid 24874 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
Jan 30 13:12:37 webserver /kernel: pid 32084 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
Jan 30 13:20:49 webserver /kernel: pid 32628 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
Jan 30 13:20:54 webserver /kernel: pid 32605 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
Jan 30 13:21:01 webserver /kernel: pid 32629 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11

No idea what is going on, it started four days ago for no reason
I can guess. In the apache logs I find no actions that would be in sync with
those timestamps. Google was not much help either. 

How should I go about investigating this ? How can I find out more infos about 
what is causing this ?

I'm puzzled and a bit worried. Many thanks for any hints.

j.