You can certainly do something like what you propose in your apachectl, but you also probably want to avoid doing anything as clumsy as ps -ef | grep `cat /usr/apache/logs/httpd.pid` | grep -v grep > /dev/null 2>&1 Rather try something like kill -0 `cat /usr/apache/logs/httpd.pid` if [ $? ]; then ... fi -ascs ________________________________ De : JAIN, ABHAY K, ATTSI [mailto:jainabhay@xxxxxxx] Envoyé : lundi 29 octobre 2007 19:02 À : users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : Suggestion for apachectl We have setup to gracefully shutdown/startup of Apache via init.d on our UNIX systems. Recently we had a power outage in our lab. It caused httpd.pid file to remain in logs directory and prevented Apache to automatically restart upon power up. We had to manually remove httpd.pid in each machine and start Apache. I am proposing following change in start section of apachectl to automate startup in such condition. Please comment. How can this be incorporated in Apache. case $ARGV in start) if [ -r /usr/apache/logs/httpd.pid ] then # Check if apache is running ps -ef | grep `cat /usr/apache/logs/httpd.pid` | grep -v grep > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ] then # Probably system was not shutdown properly rm -f /usr/apache/logs/httpd.pid fi fi $HTTPD -k $ARGV ERROR=$? ;; Abhay --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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