$author = "Nathan McKinlay" ;
> 
> The I uncommented the LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so 
> line again,
> stopped apache, tried to restart it and it failed.
> 
> This was the apache error log:
> 
> [Tue Aug 30 22:09:06 2050] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0
> [Tue Aug 30 22:10:20 2050] [error] (2)No such file or directory: 
> mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
> [Tue Aug 30 22:10:21 2050] [error] (2)No such file or directory: 
> mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
> [Tue Aug 30 22:10:21 2050] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux 
> configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Tue Aug 30 22:10:21 2050] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
> /usr/lib/apache/suexec)
> [Tue Aug 30 22:10:21 2050] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

can you have a look to see if you have a file 'session_mm.sem' on your
system (try 'locate session_mm.sem')...


> what's the "magic file" it keeps saying it can't find?

mime magic is an apache trick to figure out file types by looking at the
first X number of bytes of the file rather then relying on it's extension
like windows does. see if there if you can't find the magic file somewhere
in the /etc tree...

hth
marty

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