<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks everyone!! It was a SSL cert issue.<br><br><br><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, October 21, 2013 9:16 AM, "Carruth, Rusty" <Rusty.Carruth@Smarth.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5577753737"><style>#yiv5577753737 #yiv5577753737 --
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#yiv5577753737 </style><div><div class="yiv5577753737WordSection1"><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Is it externally visible? (That is, can someone on the internet see it?) (This helps us know if its maybe an attack of some kind which caused the problem)</span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">What is the last thing in the log from apache just before it shut down?</span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">IMHO you can ignore the named stuff (but willing to be educated).</span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">When you try to start it, what is in
the httpd logs from when it isn’t running till it quits? What is different between THAT sequence and the sequence in the logs from when it last started ok?</span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Just a few random thoughts/questions – I am in NO WAY an Apache expert!</span></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv5577753737yqt7670123137" id="yiv5577753737yqt72968"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">
plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>keith smith<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 21, 2013 8:53 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Apache mysteriously stopped and will not start</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">Hi,</span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">I'm run a web server out of my home office. It is CentOS 6.x with no real modifications. It is a standard LAMP config. It has been running since March w/o any issues. </span></span><span style=""><br
clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">All of a sudden Apache shutdown. </span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">When I run /etc/init.d/httpd start the only response is [FAILED] same for /etc/init.d/httpd stop</span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">apachectl configtest returns "Syntax OK".</span></span><span style=""><br
clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">I found these in the /var/lib/httpd/error_log ( read this has to do with the SSL)</span></span><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">[Sun Oct 20 03:37:44 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...</span></span><span style=""><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 03:37:44 2013] [notice] Digest: done</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 20:47:53 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
(wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 20:48:07 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 20:55:14 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 20:58:36 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:01:34 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:11:18 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:11:30 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span
class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:12:07 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:14:34 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:15:22 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:17:26 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Sun Oct 20 22:17:26 2013] [info] Init: Initialized OpenSSL library</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">[Mon Oct 21 07:41:11 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)</span><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br
clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">I don't know what to make of this /var/log/messages : ( I read this has to do with IPv6)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">Oct 20 03:37:44 E520 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.10" x-pid="1212" x-info="<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">http://www.rsyslog.com</a>"] rsyslogd was HUPed</span></span><span style=""><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">Oct 20 03:37:44 E520 named[19169]: error (network unreachable) resolving '30.233.143.188.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN':
2001:660:3006:1::1:1#53</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">Oct 20 03:37:44 E520 named[19169]: error (network unreachable) resolving '30.233.143.188.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 2001:dc0:2001:a:4608::59#53</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">Oct 20 03:37:45 E520 named[19169]: error (network unreachable) resolving '13.113.153.194.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 2001:660:3006:1::1:1#53</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">Oct 20 03:37:45 E520 named[19169]: error (network unreachable) resolving '13.113.153.194.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 2001:500:2e::1#53</span><br clear="none"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy">Oct 20 03:37:45 E520 named[19169]: error (network unreachable) resolving '13.113.153.194.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 2001:dc0:2001:a:4608::59#53</span></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div
class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">There is a whole bunch of these.</span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">Dig returns what appears to be the correct DNS.</span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">There is lots of disk space.</span></span><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span
style="">The last 3 changes I made were 7-10 days ago.</span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span class="yiv5577753737lozengfy"><span style="">Last change was to run </span></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">cd /etc/pki/tls/certs</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">./make-dummy-cert localhost.crt</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">I did that because I was trying to configure a new website. I had done the Apache part weeks before and the site was working. I wanted to add
some email accounts. I'm running Postfix with Dovecot.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">So I added the email accounts in the config and when I went to add them to my Thunderbird, I received an error because the SSL was expired. I am using a self signed SSL. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">A little research brought me to </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">cd /etc/pki/tls/certs</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">./make-dummy-cert localhost.crt</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">However that was 7 -
10 days before Apache just up and stopped.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">I am running this server as a learning experience. Someone helped me with the Bind config and the Postfix/Dovecot config.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">I rebooted the server last night in the hopes that something was corrupted and would be fixed by a reboot. No such luck.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style="">I am at loss for what to look at next. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span
style="">Thank you very much for all your help!!</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv5577753737MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">------------------------<br clear="none">Keith Smith</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt7670123137" id="yqt23323">---------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br clear="none">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss"
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