[Lula] apache-ssl dies silently

[Peter Benjamin]

Have you googled for the answer before posting here?
Thus, I keep my reply short.  You give next to no info.

Memory leak?  

Do a

   find / -name '*core*' print

and see if there is a core dump that can be analyzed.
That would be proof positive of why it is dieing.

What OS?  What level apache?

Anything else running on the machine, like another apache?
Or does this apache also serve up other web sites in non ssl mode?

Is your machine being attacked?  An exploit causing apache to crash is likely?

This is why I dislike log records being written out only
after the file is set back to the end user.  If written
before, then at least you have a record.  I heard of a
patch to apache that does this.  Likely is the overkill
method of solving.