F11: httpd problems

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 08/25/2009 03:39 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> To my surpise, I somehow ended up not
> being able to shutdown httpd!
>
> # killall httpd
> # service httpd start
> Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> # service httpd stop
> Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
> # service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
> Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind 
> to address [::]:80
> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 
> 0.0.0.0:80
> no listening sockets available, shutting down
> Unable to open logs
>
> and yet all of the httpd daemons are still running.
>
> I can stop all of the httpd with the killall command
> but the point is, why does the service command fail
> to shut it down?
>
> Note, that when rebooting, httpd starts up with no
> reported errors as far as I can tell, it is not in the
> messages logs.
>
> Any pointers on this?
>
> Thanks-
> Dan
>

I forgot to add, that when issuing 'service httpd stop' command,
the /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid file is removed!