Very bad Apache problem.

[Dave Walker]

Dave Walker wrote:

> So I am running Apache with a main site, and 5 virtual hosts.  
> Simple.  For some reason, and I can not tell why after about 3-4 days 
> of Apache being up it crashes.  The server get's a handful of load but 
> nothing to the capability of crashing Apache.  When it crashes apache2 
> is not running, there are no processes related to apache.  When I 
> attempt to restart it I get:
>
> Linux:/etc/apache2# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
> Forcing reload of web server: Apache2 ... no pidfile found! not 
> running?(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to 
> address 129.21.xx.xxx:80
> no listening sockets available, shutting down
> Unable to open logs
> Linux:/etc/apache2#
>
> If I try and telnet to the host on port 80, telnet hangs, crtl-c or 
> ctrl-z do nothing.  The only way I know how to fix this is a reboot.  
> And I can't deal with rebooting a soon-to-be-production server this 
> often for what seems to be a stupid problem.  Does anyone else have 
> this problem, or know how I can fix it.
>
> -- 
> Dave
>
And something I forgot to add, my netstat -lt

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 *:32768                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:2049                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:51234                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:14534                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:872                   *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:6666                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 localhost:mysql         *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:auth                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:755                   *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:4501                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:ftp                   *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 linux.csh.rit.ed:domain *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 localhost:domain        *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 localhost:953           *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:1023                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 *:imaps                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 *:imap2                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 *:www                   *:*                     LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 *:smtp                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 ip6-localhost:953       *:*                     LISTEN

AS we can see, www on tcp, is not in use.

--
dave