I was wondering if anyone could give some insight as to the possible cause of a restart error i've been getting intermittently over the last 8 months or so. my apache version is: Apache/2.0.50 (Unix) My kernel version is: Linux 2.4.20-8smp (redhat 9) Basically, if I restart the server using 'apachectl graceful', it will restart without problems 99 percent of the time, but occasionally it will fail to restart, giving the error message: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs >From my understanding, this error is normally the result of either an apache server already running, or something else listening on that port. There is nothing else running on the server that should ever pick up on port 80, so typically i've tried to fix the problem by killing all apache/httpd processes and then restarting apache, but the same error persists. Since this is a production server, at this point i've just hedged my bets and rebooted for a 2-3 minute downtime, at which point operation resumes normally. Basically i'm looking for advice on what the issue could be, so I can stop it from happening.... or at least a _FAST_ way to get apache back up and running if/when it does happen, so I don't have to enter "oh crap the server is down" mode. any input would be appreciated thanks, brad bowman --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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