APACHE Down!! Help!!!!

[dominet]

here's my apache log! i can't restart it!



[Mon Sep 9 12:03:21 2002] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6b configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Mon Sep 9 12:03:22 2002] [alert] Child 1981 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
[email protected] [/etc/httpd/logs]#

 

[Juanra]

What do you get with this?
# grep &User nobody& /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

 

[dominet]

for some reason all my sites disapeared from the httpd.conf just restored httpd.conf from backup its working now

 

[Stormtrooper]

ok, this is a good point that needs addressing.

We've noticed a few times that the httpd.conf file just seems to get dumped by WHM. Not always totally empty but occasionally it will decide not to add a certain percentage of the account (random percent every time).

I've use RCS to roll back the config file to a usable state but I'd like to know if this happens to anybody else and how you've prevented it (if you have been able to)

 

[dilut3d]

I got this message ... the prob is that the domain i want to host do not redirect to their home directories i check the vhost section already in httpd.conf, i turned canonical OFF, and changed the perms in the home directories to user:user here's the log:

[email protected] [/home/jasonl]# tail /etc/httpd/logs/error_log
[Tue Jan 13 19:00:28 2004] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Tue Jan 13 19:00:28 2004] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
[Tue Jan 13 19:00:28 2004] [notice] Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.2 PHP/4.3.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7a configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jan 13 19:00:28 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Tue Jan 13 19:00:28 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Tue Jan 13 19:00:28 2004] [alert] Child 4365 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
[Tue Jan 13 19:01:54 2004] [notice] Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.2 PHP/4.3.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jan 13 19:01:54 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Tue Jan 13 19:01:54 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

Please let me know ..... we were very happy with this when we tried it and are ready to buy. but if it dont work properly why buy?