httpd and dovecot service start fails

[Nigel Wade]

Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:02PM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>
>>>I'm installing FC4 on an old machine after having success on a new
>>>machine. I did a new install (instead of update) and modified the same
>>>configs I modified on the new machine. Here's the latest problem. This
>>>is
>>>getting real close to working correctly!
>>>
>>>If I do /sbin/service httpd restart or /sbin/service dovecot restart,
>>>the
>>>restart fails (the stop fails too since they did not start properly
>>>during
>>>boot). However, if I do /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/sbin/dovecot , they both
>>>seem to run fine. How can I find out what's going wrong during boot or
>>>restart that's causing these to not run? I've looked in the httpd logs
>>>and
>>>the messages log and found nothing.
>>
>>Look again.  For httpd, look in /var/log/httpd/error_log.  For
>>dovecot, look in /var/log/maillog.  If a service isn't starting
>>properly, there _must_ be some information either on the screen or in
>>a log.
>>
> 
> 
> I left httpd running last night by manually starting it. I then did a
> service httpd restart this afternoon. Here's the restart:
> 
> [root at kauko sbin]# ./service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> Starting httpd:                                            [FAILED]
> [root at kauko sbin]#
> 
> 

Try running the script directly with sh and the -x flag (which will echo 
commands before they are executed) so you see where the script is failing:

# sh -x /etc/init.d/httpd start



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