Re: How to stop httpd from starting

[Chris Hagglund <suppressed>]

Anthony Gardner wrote:
> 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..
>
> If you need more info, just ask.
>
> Any pointers would be gr8ly appreciated.
>
> -Ants
I dont know if it will help but I was having similar sounding issue when 
I switched up to mod_perl2 and found that I had to change the httpd conf 
line if I wanted errors in my startup script to force the server to fail 
to configtest/start/restart/graceful/whatever. Changing my PerlRequire 
to PerlConfigRequire did the trick for me. I also do PerlModule lines 
for any modules that should be loaded so that errors in those will 
prevent apache from reloading as well.

- Chris H.