On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:38 -0500, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > i seem too often to be unable to do a restart of apache. instead of > a restart, I need to stop, then start, otherwise my startup.pl file > yells at me.
What's the error message? > on my production box, during a start, i sometime get this: > >> DBI connect('xxx','xxx',...) failed: Lost connection to > MySQL > server during query > on the first startup. if i start again, it works. Are you opening a database connection during startup and then using it from multiple child processes? That could cause this. > finally, because i use a startup.pl in apache, i've noticed that > even an apache stop will run it. No, stopping apache will not run your startup.pl. What makes you think it is running? - Perrin