Apache server keeps crashing, “caught SIGTERM, shutting down”

Question

This just started happening three weeks or so ago. The content of my website hasn\'t changed, it\'s just a phpBB forum using MySQL as a backend.

Nothing has chang

Answer 1

Have you asked your provider to investigate? I assume this is not a dedicated server,

On the face of it, this seems like a security exception and somone is trying to exploit it / or there is a process running at a set time which is causing this, can you think of anything that runs on the server every 2 days? Logging tools?

SIGTERM is the signal sent to a process to request its termination. The symbolic constant for SIGTERM is defined in the header file signal.h. Symbolic signal names are used because signal numbers can vary across platforms, however on the vast majority of systems, SIGTERM is signal #15.