>Number: 3964 >Category: general >Synopsis: Http server intermittantly dies with "Alarm clock" (SIGALRM?). >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 24 16:00:01 PST 1999 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.4 >Environment: Hardware: Intel Pentium II 350 / 256 MB RAM Operating System: FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE Compiler: GCC 2.8.1 >Description: The http server is running from inetd and tcp_wrappers (v 7.6). The server will randomly, instead of sending the requested document to the requesting browser, send a blank page with the words "Alarm clock." This usually happens several times in succession, and then starts working again. The server error logs do not show anything when this happens, nor does it leave a core file. >How-To-Repeat: Unknown. http://www.arcanis.com and http://www.shadowmatrix.net are example URLs on the server that is experiencing the problem. >Fix:
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