Hello. I recently did a yum upgrade on my centos 4.3 mail server. As soon as the upgraded completed, my apache quite working. When I do a /usr/sbin/apachectl start i get no output, a restart reports "httpd not running, trying to start" and stop reports: httpd (no pid file) not running" I'm using apache version: Apache/2.0.52 and complete setup is: Server version: Apache/2.0.52 Server built: Aug 13 2006 03:29:43 Server's Module Magic Number: 20020903:9 Architecture: 32-bit Server compiled with.... -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork" -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE -D APR_HAS_MMAP -D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled) -D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS -D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd" -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec" -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid" -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status" -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock" -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log" -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types" -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf" There is nothing reported in the error log. Also parsing the config file with /usr/sbin/httpd -t gives: " Syntax OK" But I do notice that the hpttd.pid file is missing. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the RPM but with no luck. The yum upgrade results are : Nov 06 08:10:46 Updated: openssh.i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17 Nov 06 08:10:47 Updated: gnutls.i386 1.0.20-3.2.3 Nov 06 08:10:56 Updated: python.i386 2.3.4-14.3 Nov 06 08:11:06 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL Nov 06 08:11:09 Updated: wireshark.i386 0.99.3-EL4.2 Nov 06 08:11:12 Updated: python-devel.i386 2.3.4-14.3 Nov 06 08:11:12 Updated: openssh-server.i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17 Nov 06 08:11:12 Updated: openssh-clients.i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17 Nov 06 08:11:14 Updated: openssl-devel.i586 0.9.7a-43.14 Nov 06 08:12:44 Installed: kernel-devel.i686 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL Nov 06 08:12:44 Updated: gzip.i386 1.3.3-16.rhel4 Nov 06 08:12:44 Updated: php-ldap.i386 4.3.9-3.18 Nov 06 08:13:06 Updated: kernel-smp-devel.i686 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL Nov 06 08:13:07 Updated: hwdata.noarch 0.146.23.EL-1 Nov 06 08:13:07 Updated: php-pear.i386 4.3.9-3.18 Nov 06 08:13:10 Updated: tzdata.noarch 2006m-2.el4 Nov 06 08:13:33 Updated: kernel-hugemem-devel.i686 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL Nov 06 08:13:33 Updated: php-mysql.i386 4.3.9-3.18 Nov 06 08:13:44 Updated: xorg-x11-libs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:45 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:46 Updated: xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:47 Updated: qt.i386 1:3.3.3-10.RHEL4 Nov 06 08:13:48 Updated: php.i386 4.3.9-3.18 Nov 06 08:13:48 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:48 Updated: xorg-x11-xauth.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:58 Updated: kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-6.RHEL4 Nov 06 08:13:33 Updated: php-mysql.i386 4.3.9-3.18 Nov 06 08:13:44 Updated: xorg-x11-libs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:45 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:46 Updated: xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:47 Updated: qt.i386 1:3.3.3-10.RHEL4 Nov 06 08:13:48 Updated: php.i386 4.3.9-3.18 Nov 06 08:13:48 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:48 Updated: xorg-x11-xauth.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:13:58 Updated: kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-6.RHEL4 Nov 06 08:13:58 Updated: xorg-x11-xfs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:14:04 Updated: xorg-x11.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:14:04 Updated: xorg-x11-twm.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:14:13 Updated: firefox.i386 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4 Nov 06 08:14:14 Updated: xorg-x11-xdm.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:14:15 Updated: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Nov 06 08:14:15 Updated: openssh-askpass-gnome.i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17 Nov 06 08:14:15 Updated: openssh-askpass.i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17 Nov 06 08:14:16 Updated: xorg-x11-tools.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.2 Has this happened to anyone before? Any idea what happened the .pid file? Any help with this issue would be much appreciated. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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