Topic: http server down ( reason?)

[ale]

Hi,
I seems, my server stopped working very early this mornig, as i was only viewing outside pages and mail i didnt realize it up to now.
I couldnt find any reasons but tracking httpd error log, found this

View log files

Viewed at Fri Aug 9 18:06:12 2002.

[Thu Aug  8 01:12:23 2002] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Aug  8 01:12:23 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Aug  8 01:12:23 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Thu Aug  8 01:12:23 2002] [alert] Child 6236 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
 
I have read some posting on this but have no clues about the reason apache exited

so I searched httpd admin error log  and foun this
Viewed at Fri Aug 9 18:32:32 2002.

[Thu Aug  8 01:12:21 2002] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Aug  8 01:12:21 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Aug  8 01:12:21 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

[Fri Aug  9 17:49:26 2002] noframes: Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/FormMagick.pm line 246,  line 11.
[Fri Aug  9 17:49:26 2002] noframes: Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 474.
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/CGI/FormMagick/Setup.pm line 174.

ten more lines like the upper ones and

[Fri Aug  9 17:50:26 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

these lines seems to be an error report of restarting httpd ( i restart service  with no luck and then had to restart the server to view error logs

Any clues???
Many thanks in advance, any help would be very nice
Ale

[bud]

Yes, mine does the same thing.  Once a week.

It's not hardware or internet server providers.  I'm sure it's apache or SME's implementation of it.