> Then I used $Apache::ServerStarting and $Apache::ServerReStarting ...
That was all about on Win32 Apache/1.3.20 (Win32) mod_perl/1.25_01-dev But on my Solaris 2.8 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6b $Apache::Server::Starting reports 1/0 during start/restart, which is much better. $Apache::Server::ReStarting is always 0. So, probably the part of the problem was fixed somewhere between mod_perl 1.25 and 1.26 Thanks -- ================================== Mike Blazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================================