How to stop httpd from starting

[Anthony Gardner <suppressed>]

All,

I have a bash script that includes

/usr/sbin/httpd -f  [some config stuff] >> logs/error_log 2>&1 &

I have a startup.pl script that dies and i exit ... but httpd continues trying to start.

How do I tell httpd to stop if I encounter an error during server startup time?

I've removed the nohup that was before the httpd command and I've tried exit 1 (and 0) in the startup.pl script. All to no avail.

This a snippit of my error log
[error] ModPerl::Util::exit: (120000) exit was called at /path/to/startup.pl line 26Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 1.\n
[Tue Nov 28 15:30:14 2006] [error] Can't load Perl file: /path/to/startup.pl for server my.server:0, exiting..

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Any pointers would be gr8ly appreciated.

-Ants

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