unkillable apache httpd process

[Jiawei Ye]

On 6/8/05, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> rc.d scripts just send a SIGTERM to the process by default.  If apache
> has blocked that signal, there's not much the script can do.  What you
> could do is edit apache2.sh and add a line saying "sig_stop=-KILL",
> which will make the shutdown action send a SIGKILL (aka -9) signal to
> apache.  This won't be a clean shutdown, though.  Better to try and
> debug apache and find out what it's doing.
> 
> --
>        Dan Nelson
>        dnelson at allantgroup.com
I suspect this might be related to -current, since my other 5-stable
box does not behave the same way. Anything you would suggest to
diagnose this problem?

Jiawei

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