From: Alex Le Fevre (alexlefevreyahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 16:23:09 CDT

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Hello All,

This afternoon, I was surfing over to the webmail I
have hosted on my OpenBSD 3.3 box via SSL, and I
noticed that it was responding at a mind-bendingly
slow pace. I SSH'd into the box, saw I had plenty of
bandwidth, and decided it might be a good idea to
restart my Apache server.

Apparently, this was a bad idea. Since stopping it,
I've not been able to bring it back up. "apachectl
start", "/usr/sbin/httpd -u -DSSL", etc. do not cause
it to start up. When looking in my Apache error log,
the only thing I see is:

[warn] pid file /var/www/logs/httpd.pid overwritten --
Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?

As you might imagine, this is not particularly
helpful. In a disturbing, and hopefully unrelated,
note, when I looked in /var/log to try to see if
syslog or something had a good piece of info, I
noticed that many of my logs have not been written to
since late May or mid-June; that in mind, I'm getting
no info out of them for the time being.

At this point, I went ahead and rebooted the machine,
to no effect. I've even gone so far as to check out
the source from CVS and rebuild Apache, and it's still
not coming up.

Can anyone give me any idea as to why Apache would
hose itself so badly? I'm at a complete loss here, and
the mailing lists seem bereft of examples of other
people experiencing such a thing.

Alex Kirk

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