httpd reboot every 5 minutes why

Nov 6 12:50:05 vigo httpd: httpd startup succeeded
Nov 6 12:55:05 vigo httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Nov 6 12:55:07 vigo httpd: httpd startup succeeded
Nov 6 13:00:04 vigo httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Nov 6 13:00:06 vigo httpd: httpd startup succeeded
Nov 6 13:05:06 vigo httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Nov 6 13:00:06 vigo httpd: httpd startup succeeded
Nov 6 13:05:06 vigo httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
....
etc...


i din't notice this problem until today i saw boot.log, this problem started from Nov 6. it's been a month, i checked my boot.log today (Dec 11), because i can't reboot httpd unless i do a server reboot.

i checked crontab, and found out i have SIM installed and it would run every 5 minutes, is that the problme? i've command out sim, let's see what's going on...

btw, what is the command to check last few hunderd line of a document?

SIM, thats the service monitor isn't it? If so, that could quite possibly be it if its not correctly reading apache's status.

the tail command allows you to show only the last specified number of lines of a file.

i stopped sim, and it seems my httped has stopped reboot in the past one hour.

thanks for the tail command.

You don't necassarily need SIM monitoring apache and other normal services since DirectAdmin does that already. Just the odd services.