I feel the same way. But when the server is down, one has to
consider the options to get back to where you have to be.
In this case, I botched an upgrade of ClamAV by installing the wrong
version. My bad. I then installed the correct version.
Immediately afterward, web services quit. In addition, some
applications failed to launch (Disk Utility).
I searched the archives and found the apachectl start command. It
revealed a syntax error in httpd.conf, dealing with php4.
I commented out the two php lines in httpd.conf file....and apache
did start...without php of course.
But I still had the problem with launching files.
Console revealed a consistent mention of file called libcurl.3.dylib.
in the usr/lib/ directory. The file did not appear in the directory.
I was able to restore the file from backup and figure out how to copy
to the usr/lib directory.
That fixed app launching problem.
I restarted and everything went back to normal.
My I have an atta-boy please? ;-)
Jonathan
At 1:51 PM -0800 1/17/07, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
Woeking through a long distance emergency here. My web services
won't start up after performing a third party software update
(ClamAV). I believe that I need to re-install Server on the
machine that is located in a colo facility.
The question: can OS X Server 10.4 be re-installed in a repair
mode, rather than blow away the entire disk?
It would seem more sensible that since the OS is working that you
wouldn't blow it away but instead focus on getting "web services"
working.
You may want to look at your log files for tell-tale clues as to why
it's failing. The system log files and apache log files are good
places to start.
`apachectl configtest` should tell you if there's a problem with the
configuration files for apache but more th
You might also want to check to see if there's something else now
using it's port(s). For this lsof can tell you what's open and by
whom.
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-dhan
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