Re: potatoe broken apache?

[Chris Gray <cgray@nowonder.com>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:33:42AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> I just did a dist upgrade.  How when I try to restart apache I'm getting
> this:
> [Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
> [Mon Apr 24 10:32:26 2000] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: could not call shmget
> 
> My web server is down.  Help

The 2.3.x series of kernels requires that you mount the shm
"filesystem".  The relevant line from /etc/fstab -

none                    /var/shm                shm     defaults     0 0
 
Good luck,
Chris Gray

P.S. Run this. :-)
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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