httpd dead but subsys locked

[Nitin]

Thanks for your time, but I already did it....
Any other suggestions?

Nitin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at weiss.name>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: httpd dead but subsys locked


> From: "Nitin" <nitinmehta at kappa.net.in>
> >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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