[PLUG] httpd dead

[Paul Heinlein]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Billy Dimaculangan wrote:

> "httpd dead but pid file exists." Erorr message while displaying the
> httpd status. and got this error upon displaying the httpd
> fullstatus
> 
> /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 78: links: command not found

First, find and delete your httpd.pid file. As root, try

  /bin/rm -i $(find /var -name 'httpd\.pid' 2>/dev/null)

Second, install the links program. For Red Hat, install the elinks 
rpm. For Debian, install the links package.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>