Hello, I have searched the archives and not been able to find the solution to the following problem. I would be very grateful if someone here could help or provide some pointers.
The basic problem is this: Our apache server will not start if there are system processes running that were spawned from apache's last invocation (ie. spawned from cgi's, mod_php system() calls, etc.). It dies with "cannot bind to ip_address_here port 80", etc. Example: We restart our servers every so often via crontab in order to reload modified conf files, etc. However it appears that if a user has spawned a process from mod_php, cgi, etc. that the server will not restart until those processes are killed off manually. The worst cases are when badly wrote user scripts allow an attacker to upload scripts that bind to a port and attempt to make network access, etc. (I would love to disallow users from having uploads to the server but that is not currently an option). Does anyone have any suggestion on how to automagically kill these processes? Does anyone have their own favorite recipe for stopping/starting apache in an automated fashion. Right now these situations result in downtime for users and a pager in the middle of the night to me! I would very much like to stop this :) Thanks much! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
