Hi, I've been experimenting with piped logging in apache 2.0.54 (Linux 2.4.30 i386), and found that when starting apache, the piped log target program is being started, terminated, and then started again. To demonstrate this, I have a small perl file which simply prints an info line containing the current PID when it starts and receives any signals. This is the result... (apache stopped, no log processes running) > apachectl start pid[12599] started pid[12599] got SIGTERM pid[12603] started (PID 12603 remains running and works as expected) All the other commands behave about as I would expect... > apachectl restart pid[12603] got SIGHUP pid[12603] got SIGTERM pid[12616] started > apachectl graceful pid[12616] got SIGTERM pid[12628] started > apachectl stop pid[12628] got SIGTERM pid[12628] got SIGTERM Any ideas why the perl process is being started and then terminated before being started again? Thanks, Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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