Although I can't re-create the problem now (even under a relatively heavy load), I checked the logs and could not find any extraordinary problems. Neither of the pages are high traffic (my home web server and my school's web server), so I'm not sure if that is even the problem? Thanks for the suggestion though. On 4/12/06, Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV <Axel-Stephane.SMORGRAV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It may be because at the time the attempt at starting the server is made, the previous process has not yet completely shut down. You should see a message in the error log saying that Apache is unable to bind the address/port. This is frequent on busy servers. > > Take a look at your logs to verify this. > > In that case a workaround could be to modify the implementation of the restart option of the script /etc/init.d/apache so that it does not do a start/stop but rather uses the "reload" option of httpd. > > -ascs > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Wolever [mailto:wolever.lists@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:56 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] Apache Starts Intermittently > > Hello List, > I've noticed that, on the two web servers I keep alive, Apache will tell me it has started when it really has not. > I will re-start Apache: > $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart > * Stopping apache... [ ok ] > * Starting apache... [ ok ] > But, if I use `ps aufx | grep apache` to check and see if it is running, nothing shows up (and, obviously, I can't connect to port 80). > If I do exactly the same thing to re-start it again, it usually works just fine. The only way I can tell the difference between a fake start and a real start is that a real start takes a second or so longer. > Both machines are running Gentoo and Apache 1.3.33. > Is this an issue with Apache? With Gentoo? Does it happen to anyone else? > Thanks, > David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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