I have a server with a tomcat process binding to port 80 and a httpd processes binding to port 5000. For some reason every time any process send a SIGHUP signal to httpd process my tomcat process disappears without error or anything.

I fixed the issue on the server the following way, added an explicit ServerName directive in the httpd.conf and that fixed the issue.

I still don't understand why the SIGHUP to httpd killed the tomcat process.

NOTE 1: I replicated the kill signal with the following command:

find out what the httpd pid is.

cat /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid
4056

then kill with a sighup signal

kill -s SIGHUP 4056

NOTE 2: We troubleshoot the issue and find that logrotate running every morning at 4am was sending a SIGHUP signal to realease the logs to be able to rotate them, thus killing tomcat as well.