os-solaris/1016: httpd becomes unkillable

[Paul Andrews <pa...@nomura.co.uk>]

>Number:         1016
>Category:       os-solaris
>Synopsis:       httpd becomes unkillable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache (Apache HTTP Project)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 19 08:00:02 1997
>Originator:     paul.andrews@nomura.co.uk
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.2.1
>Environment:
SunOS uw0838 5.5.1 Generic_103640-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2, SparcWorks 4.2 C,
mod_fastcgi 1.4.3, 
>Description:
The server spawns 7 copies, quite often if the parent server is killed several
of the children persist and can not even be killed with SIGKILL.
>How-To-Repeat:
The config file is:

Port 8080
AccessConfig /dev/null
ResourceConfig /dev/null
User shipleym
Group infosys
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /home/shipleym/www/uw0838/htdocs
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/shipleym/www/uw0838/cgi-bin
 
# Turn on erro logging
ErrorLog       logs/error.log
TransferLog    logs/access.log
ScoreBoardFile logs/httpd.scoreboard
 
# Java FastCGI
# Start the demon!
ExternalAppClass /data/infraweb/NGBWebRoot/cgi-bin/mpa_demo3/TestApp -host uw0838:5556
 
# Tell web server which module handles requests for which files
<Location /mpa_demo3/TestApp>
SetHandler fastcgi-script
</Location>

>Fix:
Short of rebooting the machine, no
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: