Apache httpds.pid file permission

[G V R Shankar]

Hi All,

There has disruption in the OBES application and apache was not starting. During the investigation we found that the ownership of the files

/ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid
/ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpd_pls.pid

are owned by root and sys. We had to change the ownership to ora01 and dba and start the application and it has come up well.

I don't udnerstand how the file permissions got changed. Below information is from appache error_log

ll /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid
-rw------- 1 root sys 6 Jan 11 10:58 /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid

From error_log

[Mon Jan 11 10:50:45 2010] [warn] child process 13781 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Jan 11 10:50:46 2010] [warn] child process 13782 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Jan 11 10:50:46 2010] [warn] child process 13783 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Jan 11 10:50:46 2010] [warn] child process 13983 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Jan 11 10:50:46 2010] [warn] child process 13984 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Jan 11 10:50:46 2010] [warn] child process 13159 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Jan 11 10:50:50 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jan 11 10:58:28 2010] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 25590)
[Mon Jan 11 10:58:29 2010] [notice] Oracle HTTP Server Powered by Apache/1.3.19 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Mon Jan 11 14:19:57 2010] [warn] pid file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
fopen: Permission denied
httpd: could not log pid to file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid
[Mon Jan 11 14:35:46 2010] [warn] pid file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
fopen: Permission denied
httpd: could not log pid to file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid
[Mon Jan 11 14:49:04 2010] [warn] pid file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
fopen: Permission denied
httpd: could not log pid to file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid
[Mon Jan 11 15:17:24 2010] [warn] pid file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
fopen: Permission denied
httpd: could not log pid to file /ora01/u12/prodora/iAS/Apache/Apache/logs/httpds.pid

Looks like this is a known issue, but I am unable to find a supporting document in Apache or OBES.

I have checked all the logs, but there is no trace of changing the ownership.

Can you please help me here,

Ravi.

[likid0]

Just a Long shot..

It happens to us with weblogic servers, if by mistake someone starts the servers as root instead of bea, next time you try to start a weblogic instance as bea yo get the same errors on pid,log files,etc..