On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 07:11 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > My last upgrade of Debian stable on my production server produced an > error that is causing issues. Apache2 is not automatically restarting as > it should when the system is rebooted. This is a nightly occurrence and > is required for hardware testing reasons. Anyone have any ideas as to > what might be happening? I have checked the error log & see nothing that > looks suspect. Webmin shows that the Apache server is setup to start on > bootup. It seems to run fine after I manually restart the server after > the reboot. > thanks! > frosty
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried them all & none worked. Sorry... However I did some research outside this list & arrived at a solution that was posted by another user on another list. I'm putting it up here just so it will appear in our archives. > Thanks to investigation done by Faheem Mitha and discussion on the > comments below, a full answer to this question has worked out. > > Read Faheem's answer for full details > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12597/missing-init-d-apache2-file/12748#12748 > > For humor value, here are the cliff notes: > > The short version is that init scripts are considered conf files, and > apt-get is too polite to touch conf files that have been user-modified > in any way, even to restore deleted on reinstall after a uninstall. > Before you say "duh of course", check out the gymnastics you have to > do. I quote: > > After asking the dpkg list (and being told off for it) + > further fiddling, the following works. Be careful with this. > It will replace all your modified config files with the > version from the package. > > apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -o > Dpkg::Options::="--force-confask" install --reinstall > apache2.2-common > > I don't know why you needed me to tell you this. It's the > first thing you should have thought of. :-) – Faheem Mitha > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
