Re: apachectl reports 'httpd started' when httpd didn't

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Sander Temme wrote:

> on 10/22/01 9:17 PM, Stas Bekman at stas@stason.org wrote:
> 
> 
>>Either httpd returns a wrong status here (too early?):
>>
>>if $HTTPD ; then
>>   echo "$0 $ARG: httpd started"
>>
>>or may be an additional check for pid file should be done and report
>>success/failure only then?
>>
> 
> Apachectl basically never looks back. I posted a small patch a while ago
> that waits for a couple of seconds after starting httpd and then checks the
> presence of the pid file, but it wasn't picked up.


In fact the problem happens with 'apachectl restart' too. I use:

   apachectl stop; sleep 3; apachectl start;
instead. I do this since 'apachectl restart' reports restarted when it 
didn't, because the stop wasn't fast enough. This usually happens when 
the server is not stopping very fast (dynamic processes).

I wish apachectl was more useful. Or at least won't report things it's 
not sure about.

In the perl test framework (Apache::Test) used by httpd-2.0 test suite 
we ping the server (by fetching a static page or simply /) before 
reporting that it has started and keep on pinging for a few seconds 
until ping responds or the failure is reported. I don't see why this 
approach cannot be applied to apachectl.

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