The following reply was made to PR os-os2/1664; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Brian Havard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William Nau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: os-os2/1664: Failure to properly startup every time Date: Wed, 14 Jan 98 21:09:29 +1000 >When I kill the server and restart it quickly (in a >command file), the server sometimes fails to start >properly. Before being accessed, the number of httpd >processes quickly drops to one. If a port 80 request >is made by a browser, that process dies. > >This appears to be new in the 1.3b3 beta. It didn't >appear in the 1.2.4 release from Softlink. It would seem that the problem occurs when the new server starts up before the original server has finished shutting down. The new server can't open port 80 if the old server hasn't closed it yet so it terminates with an error. Ideally, you need to wait for the old process to die before starting the new one but a delay of a few seconds should be enough to make the script work as intended (EG "call SysSleep 5") Also, there's a bug in 1.3 beta 3 (now fixed) that caused shutdown to take an unnecessarily long time which would have increase the chances of this happening. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | Brian Havard | "He is not the messiah! | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He's a very naughty boy!" - Life of Brian | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
