On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:22:08PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > Just upgraded apache to 2.0.40-11-9 and when I restarted it.. > I had this in the logs > > [Fri Dec 19 16:16:07 2003] [crit] (17)File exists: unable to create > scoreboard (name-based shared memory failure) > > something about the /var/run/httpd/httpd.scoreboard file > > This is what is stated in httpd.conf > > # > # ScoreBoardFile: File used to store internal server process information. > # If unspecified (the default), the scoreboard will be stored in an > # anonymous shared memory segment, and will be unavailable to third-party > # applications. > # If specified, ensure that no two invocations of Apache share the same > # scoreboard file. The scoreboard file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK. > # > #ScoreBoardFile "/var/run/httpd.scoreboard" > > I tried putting > ScoreBoardFile "/var/run/httpd.scoreboard.new" > > (which worked previously) rm -rf /var/run/httpd.* > and re-starting httpd still does not work. > > It only worked after I commented it out.. > > So.. Should I leave it commented or _un_commented??? You should leave it uncommented. The error can only occur if you ever uncomment this directive IIRC. Regards, joe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
