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RE: Redhat 5.1 and apache, HELP!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pettit)
Wed Nov 4 12:06:01 1998

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From: "Paul Pettit" <paulp@ccbnpts.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:54:31 -0600
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> Marxen, Sara [mailto:SMarxen@sccd.ctc.edu] wrote:
>
> I have a webserver running 5.1 and apache 1.3.1.  Everything seemed
> to be working fine since the server was installed several months
> ago, but in the last week the httpd child processes will all die at
> random times and I will only be left with the 1 httpd parent process
> owned be root, not by the web server user.  Therefore no pages are
> getting served.  I turned on debugging in apache, and tryed to enable
> logging for all levels related to daemons, users, etc.  but am not
> seeing
> anything to clue me in as to what is happening.
>

Check your settings in httpd.conf, namely:

KeepAlive
MinSpareServers.

The notes in the conf file will explain what they are and should have
defaults set. If not set:

KeepAlive On

MinSpareServers 8  #or something close

Luck,
Paul Pettit
CTO
Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc.


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