apachectl oddness

[Robin Becker]

Robin Becker wrote:
> I'm running standard freeBSD 4.9 and am port upgrading apache2. I think 
> the old version was 2.50_3 and the new is 2.52_4. In the latest build I 
> have added WITH_THREADS=1 as I need this for mod_python.
> 
> I notice now that apachectl startssl has problems reading the pass 
> phrase. I normally do this through the web using ssh/su and find that my 
> putty terminal gets locked up when I enter the phrase at the prompt.
> 
> The apachectl startssl fails for the first pass phrase entry at the 
> console, but the second seems to work. I had to kill the previously hung 
> httpd process.
> 
> Experimenting shows that
> 
> echo "pass phrase" | apachectl startssl
> 
> works fine even through ssh. Am I stupid or doing something wrong?

Seems that the problem is caused by using WITH_THREADS=1. For various reasons I 
needed to reinstall without threads and now see that the pass phrase entry works 
fine.
-- 
Robin Becker