On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Joshua E Hope wrote:
> Starting httpd with -X: the process still doesn't show up in a ps, and
> isn't running. Here's the tail of the ktrace.out file:

When I start Apache (from /etc/rc.local) I give it the conf file on the
command line thusly:
/gig/apache_1.2.0/src/httpd -f /gig/apache_1.2.0/conf/httpd.conf
Do you maybe need to specify the conf file?

> 
>  27896 httpd    GIO   fd 2 wrote 33 bytes
>        "fopen: No such file or directory
>        "
>  27896 httpd    RET   writev 33/0x21
>  27896 httpd    CALL  write(0x2,0xffffc06c,0x40)
>  27896 httpd    GIO   fd 2 wrote 64 bytes
>        "httpd: could not open document config file /usr/conf/httpd.conf
>        "
>  27896 httpd    RET   write 64/0x40
>  27896 httpd    CALL  exit(0x1)
> 
> Hmmm...it's looking for the config files in the wrong place. But without
> -X it seemed to find them fine (since the contents of the config files
> were actually in the ktrace.out). 
> 
> Here's the ls -l
> 
> total 14
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel   512 Aug 17 03:43 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel  2048 Aug 22 02:35 ../
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Aug 17 03:48 etc/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024 Aug 17 03:45 include/
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel   512 Aug 17 03:43 share/
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel   512 Aug 26 02:56 var/
> 
> Thanks Allen...
> 
> > -allen
> > 
> > -- 
> >                     Allen Briggs - briggs@ninthwonder.com
> > 
> 

-Simon Raahauge DeSantis