Try starting the server with another server already running on the same ports. It'll die saying no listening ports available, right? That's cool. useful even. What's not is what it says next.
[Fri Dec 28 20:39:26 2001] [alert] no listening sockets available, shutting down [Fri Dec 28 20:39:45 2001] [notice] Apache/2.0.30-dev (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations Maybe we should see if we can stop the last line from being displayed? david