[HCoop-Discuss] [HCoop-Misc] is apache down?

[docelic]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:22:11AM -0400, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> Christian Boesgaard wrote:
> > Apache seems to be down on mire.
> >
> > I cannot connect to any of my sites on mire and when I log into mire
> > and do a ps I cannot find a running apache.
> >   
> 
> Someone created a Domtool test user "testuser" that somehow doesn't 
> exist in a strong enough sense to satisfy Apache, so Apache is rejecting 
> configuration that refers to it.  (Apparently the person running this 
> user didn't try creating a vhost until now, or testuser just became 
> invalid, or something.)
> 
> I've hidden that user's configuration and am rebuilding things now.  
> Thanks for noticing this.
> 
> P.S.: hcoop-misc is for off-topic messages, but your message was very 
> on-topic.  I'm Cc'ing hcoop-discuss, which seems like a better place for 
> such messages.

I've deleted that user recently through direct means and not using
destroy-user, thinking that it was a Kerberos/AFS-only entity.

Sorry for the trouble. By the way, Adam, is 'apachect configtest' ran
before domtool reloads/restarts apache?

If this was a startup-time error, it should have caught it. If it
crashed due to non-existing user in runtime, then maybe we should 
patch the code to handle that gracefully.

-doc