Every so often say 1 time a week apache crashes on me i can not seam to restart it or get any responce of viewing websites.

When i try to restart it i get is

Reloading web server config...httpd not running, trying to start
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

This just means i have to reboot the server and it works again but bit of pain when i have no access to computer and it goes down.

Can anyone help me?

If you can't bind to the socket there is something else listening on port 80. Use lsof and/or netstat to find out what.


Håkan

this is output of netstat when it happens

tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www 222.87.157.77:61811 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www 200-225-250-143.dy:2436 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www wlstsched01-pool0-:2077 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www i220-220-16-184.s0:2006 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www modemcable034.127-:2002 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www 83-70-226-220.b-r:56804 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:www c-68-42-108-50.hsd:1183 SYN_RECV
tcp 252 0 192.168.1.4:webcache crawl-66-249-65-5:54823 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 50 0 192.168.1.4:webcache dyn-86.106.34.39.t:1068 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 46 0 192.168.1.4:webcache dyn-86.106.34.39.t:1067 CLOSE_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.4:imap2 83-70-226-220.b-r:56761 ESTABLISHED
tcp 587 0 192.168.1.4:34350 unknown.easynews.c:ircd CLOSE_WAIT
tcp6 0 132 ::ffff:192.168.1.4:ssh 83-70-226-220.b-r:56772 ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.4:32896 ns2.ns.esat.net:domain ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 192.168.1.4:32895 ns1.ns.esat.net:domain ESTABLISHED

Use lsof to get the process id: sudo lsof -i4. Then you can find out which process/program is using the port.