Thanks to Owen, David and Josh.
Problem still exists after removing the pass-phrase. More info follows:
OS: RedHat 6.2 (pre-installed httpd has been working fine for months)
Did not include mm-1.1.3.
PERL 5.6.0 is the installed version (confirmed)
Not trying to load mod-perl (indeed, using the default modules for a
standard Apache build aside from the script patch for mod_ssl).
CURRENT SYMPTOMS:
Basically, regardless of the start method, there is no obvious error message
or condition (command line or error_log file) and no http server starts.
##### apachectl or manually running httpd #######################
[root@linus bin]# ./apachectl start
./apachectl start: httpd started
[root@linus bin]# ps ax | grep http
7331 ? S 0:00 vi httpsd.conf
9180 ? S 0:00 grep http
[root@linus bin]#
{{{ The only error message in the log file for this start is as follows }}}
[Sat Jan 20 18:52:38 2001] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache/logs/httpsd.pid
overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
##### manually running httpsd ###################################
[root@linus bin]# ./httpsd -f /usr/local/apache/conf/httpsd.conf
Reading key for server www:80
[root@linus bin]# ps ax | grep http
9206 ? S 0:00 grep http
[root@linus bin]#
{{{ No new lines in error_log }}}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Owen Boyle
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: New install, silent aborts
>
>
> Guy Smith wrote:
> >
> > OK. Still not working. A recap:
> > 2) Got fresh download of:
> > Apache 1.3.14 (NOT Apache-SSL)
> > mod_ssl-2.7.1-1.3.14
> > openssl-0.9.6
> > perl-5.6.0 (saw that as a requirement in one of the INSTALL docs)
>
> Jolly good.
>
> > Still having silent aborts, and an odd behavior.
>
> Is it working ever? Are you running Windows? I get the impression you
> try to start it and nothing happens. If so, could this be related to the
> famous double-entry password feature? I have never experienced this
> myself, but apparently if you have encrypted your certificate key,
> apache prompts for a pass-phrase, you type it in - and apache does
> nothing! Is this what is happening? If so, there are three fixes:
>
> - type the pass-phrase in again (see
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modssl&m=97320138232326&w=2 for a
> discussion of this bug).
>
> - don't encrypt the pass-phrase (see
> http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.6/ssl_faq.html#ToC31 for instructions).
>
> - Make a script to deliver the pass-phrase (see
> http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.6/ssl_reference.html#ToC2).
>
> Personally, I don't see the point of the pass-phrase. Our server key is
> readable only by root (on unix). If a hacker has root privileges on our
> machine we've had it anyway...
>
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle.
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