[CentOS] weird apache issue

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm having a little bit of a weird issue on my web host. I was just
> wondering if anyone's seen anything like this before.
>
> The problem is that you can't seem to restart apache via the stock init
> script that comes with apache:
>
> [root at beta:~] #service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]

That's not normal.  It should say [OK] there.

> So what you have to do in this case is kill it like so:
>

It is supposed to be killing the pid found in
/var/run/httpd/httpd.pid.  Can you tell why that doesn't work?   You
might get a hint from:
sh -x /etc/init.d/httpd restart

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   Les Mikesell
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