Weird apache hang (freebsd 6.1)

floris

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Since a few days apache repeatedly hangs after every nightly tally. This has never happened before. No software configuration was changed. At least not that i know of. Ps shows:

apache 8491 0.0 0.4 4624 4048 ?? S 9:08PM 0:01.53 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL (perl5.8.8)

I have to do 'kill -9 8491' in order to kill apache and then i can restart it again. Anyone else has had this problem and found a fix? These are the things i tried:

1) installed the new customapache version (http://files.directadmin.com/services/customapache/beta/) and used that to rebuild apache and php
2) copied the httpd start/stop script from customapache to /usr/local/etc/rc.d
3) upgraded mod_perl

The problem keeps occuring. For now i disabled mod_perl, but i'd like a better fix. Anyone? Thanks.
 
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mod_perl doesnt compile clean on Freebsd anyway so you should disable it period and or comment out the relevant lines in httpd.conf after a complete recompile. But, we are running numerious 6.1 boxes and thankfully dont see the problem your describing.

Have you looked in all your log files for possible answers?
 
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