From: "Nitin" <nitinmehta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Thanks for your time, but I already did it....
> Any other suggestions?
Hm...okay, so you say that the server's up and running. What do you get
when you do a "ps -axc | grep httpd"?
Also, what exactly is the error message you get when you do a "service httpd
restart"?
Ben
>
> Nitin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: httpd dead but subsys locked
>
>
> > From: "Nitin" <nitinmehta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >I'm facing this new problem.
> > >Everything was working OK, suddenly, https got killed and now,
> > >when I start it, it displays OK. But nothing actually happens, no
> > >processes started. When I check the status, it displays "httpd
> > >dead but subsys locked." and surprisingly all websites (hosted
> > >on that server) are working fine.
> > >
> > >I cann't take chances to reboot the server.
> > >I've checked, there are no pid files and mesage file doesn't display
> > >any errors either.... where or what else should I check?
> > >
> > >Please help me as soon as possible
> >
> > Nitin,
> >
> > A quick check of /etc/init.d/httpd shows the following code snippet:
> >
> > start() {
> > echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
> > check13 || exit 1
> > daemon $httpd $OPTIONS
> > RETVAL=$?
> > echo
> > [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/httpd
> > return $RETVAL
> > }
> >
> > Now, you see the part that says "touch /var/lock/subsys/httpd" ? When
> > Apache runs, it spawns a bunch of processes with their own pid's, so the
> > script keeps track of whether or not it's running by creating that file
> > (/var/lock/subsys/httpd) when it runs. Then when it stops, it deletes
it.
> >
> > Check to see if that file exists. If it does, then delete it and try
> > running "service httpd restart" again, and see if it comes up.
> >
> > Ben
> >
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