I have had a few of those. I recall we had one setup where when apache crashed, it screwed up the PID file, so when you did an apachctl call, it listed the service as already running, but it wasn't.

In order to effectively manage a web server, it is necessary to get feedback about the activity and performance of the server as well as any problems that may be occurring. The Apache HTTP Server ...

Dave tackles analysis of the ugly Apache web server log. I know, in my last article I promised I'd jump back into the mail merge program I started building a while back. Since I'm having some hiccups ...