os-bsdi/9462: /var/www/bin/apachectl start will not work

[Dave Yadallee <ro...@nk.ca>]

>Number:         9462
>Category:       os-bsdi
>Synopsis:       /var/www/bin/apachectl  start will not work
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 12 10:10:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     root@nk.ca
>Release:        2.0.31-dev
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
BSD/OS doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 4.2 BSDI BSD/OS 4.2 Kernel #90: Mon Dec 10 12:44:19 MST 2
001     root@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL  i386
>Description:
Here is what our erroe logs are saying:


[Sat Jan 12 10:54:51 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
(24)Too many open files: httpd: could not open error log file /var/log/httpd/herit
agefestival-error_log.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to compile this on BSDI with more than 500 Virtual Hosts
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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