Apache webserver

[Oliver Schmitz]

Dear all,

in following the origin hp advices for installing and administering the hp based apache webserver i run into serious problems:

It is written in this crazy document that one should search after the technological preversion and delete it before with swremove B9416AA and then remove the remaining directory structure /opt/hpapache2/. I try to do so but swremove does not find the product mentioned. I did the rm -r of the directory mentioned and it tells me that some files are busy (among them the httpd which I searched before with ps -ef and which was defenitely nor running).
Now I can not remove the files in this directory and I do not know how to proceed further. Just installing the apache again should bring me into more problems as mentioned in the document of hp mentioned above (shall I believe in this information).
If somebody has some hints for me would be very helpfull.


Thanks in advance and best regards,

Oliver

[Matt Hearn · Accepted solution]

If you know what files are noted as being open (in this case, you can try the httpd file), run fuser on them to see what processes are using the file:

fuser /opt/hpapache2/bin/httpd

It should tell the process numbers of anything using it. Here's an example I ran on syslog (I don't run httpd):

>> fuser /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log: 765o 5423o

>> ps -ef | grep -e 5423 -e "765 "
root 765 1 0 Nov 15 ? 0:12 /usr/sbin/syslogd -D
root 5423 5405 0 Nov 15 ? 12:51 opcle

Let us know what processes you see using the files.

Thanks!

[Oliver Schmitz]

Thanks for this entrance. Here the proocesses

# fuser /opt/hpapache2/bin/httpd
/opt/hpapache2/bin/httpd: 10747mt

# ps -ef |grep -e 10747
root 11001 10765 1 15:36:39 pts/11 0:00 grep -e 10747
root 10747 1 255 15:00:48 ? 34:17 /opt/hpapache2/bin/httpd -d /opt/hpapache2 -k start

[Oliver Schmitz]

Thanks Matt,

I used fuser (could have this idea but was so amazed by the strange behaviour) to identificate all the running processes, did some fiddeling, killed them and now I am clean to install the apache.

Best regards,

Oliver

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi oliver,

There is on piece missing in the doc, apache should be stopped before yo remove the software.

# apachectl stop

Try to kill the PID you got from fuser.

HTH,
Robert-Jan