[CentOS] weird apache issue

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not really sure how to interpret that, unfortunately.
>
>
> However looked for the pid file for apache and noticed that it DOESN'T
> EXIST!
>
> [root at beta:~] #ls -l /var/run/httpd/
> total 0
>
>
> Well, that would explain why the init script isn';t able to kill the
> process. Maybe puppet is doing something weird with that pid file? I don't
> really know offhand, but I guess I will have to investigate that.

Is one created at a successful startup?   And how is puppet involved?

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  Les Mikesell
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