Re: restart disaster with 1.2-dev

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

Actually, I'm finding that -HUP will fail with "address already in use"
on FreeBSD 2.1.5 on the *first* -HUP attempt. I have stopped my nightly
HUP until I get a chance to look at this more.


> I put 1.2-dev on 3 FreeBSD machines yesterday, only to find that
> none of them came back to life after a SIGHUP at midnight.
> 
> It's easy to reproduce, just use kill -USR1 once and then kill -HUP
> becomes lethal.
> 
> /usr/local/httpd/httpd -d /usr/local/httpd
> (139)=localhost=/usr/local/httpd=>kill -USR1 `cat logs/httpd.pid `
> (140)=localhost=/usr/local/httpd=>kill -HUP `cat logs/httpd.pid `
> (141)=localhost=/usr/local/httpd=>bind: Address already in use
> httpd: could not bind to port 80
> 
> kaboom, nothing left alive.
> 
> 
> System: FreeBSD 2.1
> Apache: apache_19960813190019.tar.gz
> Extra Modules: mod_expires
> 
> 
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