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08-25-2008

otheus

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Dude, the shell script is not failing... the "apachectl" command is. Look at start4.log when it fails. You can help yourself by automatically emailing yourself the logfile when it fails. Just ADD:

Code:

if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then 
  mail -s "apache failed with $?" $USER < /tmp/start.4.log
fi