Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-25 Thread Robert Fox
Matt- Yes, I agree. It's a very frustrating scenario. My experience has been that the OS is just fine, with other services being unaffected by the Apache break down. It always happens at peak load periods, usually when several web applications are being hit hard at the same time. If something w

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-25 Thread Matthew Claridge
Rob, This won't be much help, but we've had this happen under severe load too (Apache 2.0.50, RHEL 3, 2.4.21-40). I haven't managed to find an explanation, but my current assumption is that either Apache or the OS is running out of some critical resource (file descriptors? socket limits? who

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-24 Thread Ed Zaborowski
I don't know a whole lot, but with only one process starting it sounds like you may have the debug switch on (-X). I am unsure how different RedHat is from Fedora, but if you have a /etc/sysconfig/httpd I would look in there to see if you have the -X option turned on. -X Run httpd in debug

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On 7/24/06, Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob- Thanks for the response. This is definitely not a configuration issue. The error logs don't seem to indicate why only one process starts, but the children fail to start. I get a normal startup message in the logs. The only thing that clea

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-24 Thread Robert Fox
Rob- Thanks for the response. This is definitely not a configuration issue. The error logs don't seem to indicate why only one process starts, but the children fail to start. I get a normal startup message in the logs. The only thing that clears this is re-booting the host. Are there other pl

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-24 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'd check your config first. I forget the syntax for Redhat, but for my Knoppix system it's "/usr/sbin/apache2 -t". To check your system, locate the httpd executable and display it's help: "/path/to/httpd -h" Then, assuming everything checks out, check /var/log/httpd. Hopefully this will prov

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache fails to restart

2006-07-24 Thread Robert Fox
Hello again- I haven't received any responses on this, so I thought maybe I could simplify my question. If Apache fails to restart, where should I look to find out why? The log files? System logs? Other Apache files (which ones)? Should I run a diagnostic while Apache is frozen? What should I l