I have this line in my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file: Include conf.d/*.conf and my fast cgi configuration looks like this: [root@server ~]# cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_fastcgi.conf ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin "/var/www/fcgi-bin/" # FastCGI # If the module hasn't been loaded yet, deny access to the directory <IfModule !mod_fastcgi.c> <Directory "/var/www/fcgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Deny from all </Directory> </IfModule> LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> FastCgiIpcDir /etc/httpd/fastcgi <Directory "/var/www/fcgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks +Includes -Indexes SetHandler fastcgi-script AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcg .fcgi .fpl Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> # Start up the following static FastCGI applications. # By default, the Process Manager will start one instance of the application with the default configuration specified (in parentheses) below. # Should a static application instance die for any reason mod_fastcgi will spawn another to replace it and log the event (at the warn LogLevel). #Include conf.d/fastcgi.static FastCgiServer /var/www/fcgi-bin/someapp.fcgi -init-start-delay 5 FastCgiServer /var/www/fcgi-bin/anotherapp.fcgi -init-start-delay 10 FastCgiServer /var/www/fcgi-bin/newapp.fcgi -init-start-delay 20 FastCgiServer /var/www/fcgi-bin/otherapp.fcgi -init-start-delay 30 FastCgiServer /var/www/fcgi-bin/myspecialapp.fcgi -init-start-delay 60 </IfModule> When I restart httpd: [root@server ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ] [root@server ~]# Why does /var/log/httpd/error_log look like this: [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 6650) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/myspecialapp.fcgi" started (pid 6651) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/otherapp.fcgi" started (pid 6652) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/newapp.fcgi" started (pid 6653) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/anotherapp.fcgi" started (pid 6654) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/someapp.fcgi" started (pid 6655) ***** How come all these static FastCGI applications are all starting together at the same time? How come they aren't scatter started? I'd expect to see either: [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 6650) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:53 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/someapp.fcgi" started (pid 6651) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:58 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/anotherapp.fcgi" started (pid 6652) [Wed Jul 01 18:20:08 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/newapp.fcgi" started (pid 6653) [Wed Jul 01 18:20:18 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/otherapp.fcgi" started (pid 6654) [Wed Jul 01 18:20:48 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/myspecialapp.fcgi" started (pid 6655) OR [Wed Jul 01 18:19:48 2009] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 6650) [Wed Jul 01 18:19:53 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/someapp.fcgi" started (pid 6651) [Wed Jul 01 18:20:03 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/anotherapp.fcgi" started (pid 6652) [Wed Jul 01 18:20:23 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/newapp.fcgi" started (pid 6653) [Wed Jul 01 18:20:53 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/otherapp.fcgi" started (pid 6654) [Wed Jul 01 18:21:53 2009] [warn] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi-bin/myspecialapp.fcgi" started (pid 6655) I am using apache installed from rpm: [root@server ~]# rpm --query httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.x86_64 httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1 [root@server ~]# I installed mod_fastcgi from source: 3790 tar xvfz mod_fastcgi-2.4.6.tar.gz 3791 cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.6 3792 cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile 3793 nano -w Makefile 3794 echo "top_dir = /usr/lib64/httpd" 3795 make 3796 make check 3797 make install 3798 cd .. 3799 ldconfig -v 3800 ldconfig -v 3801 service httpd restart I'm using this distro: [root@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.3 (Final) [root@server ~]# Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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