httpd and /etc/pwd.db

[Varshavchick Alexander]

Hello,

I have a problem with apache httpd daemon which sporadically starts
creating child processes (and never killing them), which takes place after
writing the following into the syslog and system console:

httpd: /etc/pwd.db

Can it be the problem with the scripts working under mod_perl, or httpd
itself? Httpd is Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 PHP/4.2.3, FreeBSD
4.5.

Thank you

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Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company
Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax)