httpd and dovecot service start fails

[Harold Hallikainen]

> 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]#



And here's the error_log:

[Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
authentication ...
[Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Sun Feb 05 04:02:20 2006] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Sun Feb 05 04:02:22 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes
based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Sun Feb 05 04:02:23 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) configured --
resuming normal operations
[Sun Feb 05 13:49:44 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort)


The 13:49:44 appeared when I did the restart. Nothing appeared after that...

THANKS!

Harold



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