Apache woes

[Ken Schweigert]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:24:14PM -0700, Francis X. Maier wrote:
> Ben, Ken, 
> 
> Here's my error log 
> 
> [Tue Mar 16 09:06:05 2004] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid 
> overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? 
> [Tue Mar 16 09:06:05 2004] [crit] (17)File exists: unable to create 
> scoreboard (name-based shared memory failure) 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:10:45 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for 
> digest 
> authentication ... 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:10:45 2004] [notice] Digest: done 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:10:46 2004] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid 
> overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:10:46 2004] [crit] (17)File exists: unable to create 
> scoreboard (name-based shared memory failure) 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:41:03 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for 
> digest 
> authentication ... 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:41:03 2004] [notice] Digest: done 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:41:04 2004] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid 
> overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? 
> [Tue Mar 16 11:41:04 2004] [crit] (17)File exists: unable to create 
> scoreboard (name-based shared memory failure) 
> 
>  

If memory serves me correctly ...
Apache uses the scoreboard file to store information about it's child
processes and keeps two or more instances from using each other's
processes.  Dig around Apache's website for more information.

If apache is NOT running, you can safely remove httpd.scoreboard and
httpd.pid.  Then try and start apache again.

-- 
Ken Schweigert, Network Administrator
Byte Productions, LLC
http://www.byte-productions.com