[monit] monit can't connect while apache is restarting gracefully

[Sander van der Vliet]

Hi,

Every morning at 6 AM my apache is restarted by logrotate to rotate  
the logs. This is done gracefully by: apache2ctl graceful > /dev/null

However, once every 2/3 days monit fails the connection/protocol  
test, while apache should still be able to handle requests during a  
graceful restart. How can this happen?

My rules:

    if failed host localhost port 80
         protocol HTTP request /monit/token
         then restart

   if failed host localhost port 443 type TCPSSL
        certmd5 53-CB-FC-77-5D-D6-CF-A8-F1-1C-64-40-90-4F-24-4B
        protocol HTTP request /monit/token
        then restart

The failure:

'apache2' failed, cannot open a connection to INET[localhost:443]
'apache2' failed, cannot open a connection to INET[localhost:80]

Or timetimes a protocol test failure:

'apache2' failed protocol test [HTTP] at INET[localhost:443].

Is this an apache problem? Apache should accept incomming connections  
right? Or is this a monit problem, are my rules too strict? Or is  
monit too strict?

The result is that apache is restarted twice, once graceful by  
logrotate, monit can't connect and then is restarted by monit an  
apache2 stop/start.

Any way to resolve this?

Sander