Have you made any recent changes in your httpd.conf file lately? If yes, then
back comment them out and see if the service will start up agai - you may have
to change how they're written. 

I'd add an 'if not' clause here but I can't see how a service on a box would
just up and die and stay dead like that unless one of two things
happened: 1. most obvious thought is httpd.conf 2. second chance is any patches
to the overall system could change a library or some other resource that httpd
calls on. smtpd did the exact thing to me a few months back and I never figured
out anything more than it was a kernel upgrade I'd tried to do that was only
partially successful - had to end up building a new box - but it would start
successfully and die as soon as it was touched. Hope this is helpful :] just
trying to add my two bits of help since I've been getting a lot of it myself
lately.

<EOL>
Tib


On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, James McLaughlin wrote:

> When I run
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
> it returns
> shutting down httpd:  FAILED
> starting httpd: OK
> 
> I then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status
> it returns
> httpd dead but subsys locked
> 
> Anyone seen this before or do I need to ask the Apache list??
> 
> TIA
> 
> Foam
> 
> 
> 




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