[SlugBug] Apache Restart Panic - any advice?

[Andy Davidson]

On 21 Feb 2007, at 13:19, James Wallbank wrote:

> But if the server suffers a power-outage, will apache restart  
> smoothly? (I'd rather guess than test right now.) Obviously, I  
> don't want to have to double-restart httpd manually to iron out  
> this glitch.
> What happened? Can anyone give me advice, insights or reassurance?

Not every apache instance went down before the init script tried to  
bring apache back up.  Perhaps the processes which were still running  
were mid-way through a large request ?

For the paranoid, a stop .. check .. start is better.

cheers
-a