Apache not starting with cron or at boot

Hello,

../apachectl startssl starts fine from command line

However....

from cron or at boot it will not start.

Running Solaris 8 with the latest patches 108528-23
Ultra 2 system

Here is the line in cron:
04 12 * * * truss /etc/rc2.d/S99apache -print
>/etc/cron.d/apache_start2

also I have had cron look like:
04 12 * * * truss /netra/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl
-print >/etc/cron.d/apache_start2


Either way the result is:
/netra/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd could not be
started


There is nothing in the apache error log file about this.

The cron log shows:

> root 11642 c Sun Aug 31 10:10:00 2003
< root 11642 c Sun Aug 31 10:10:00 2003 rc=1
> CMD: truss /netra/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl -print >/etc/cron.d/apache_start2

Any insight would be great!

Thank you

Christophe

"Christophe" <info@owingsmills.net> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> ./apachectl startssl starts fine from command line
>
> However....
>
> from cron or at boot it will not start.
>
> Running Solaris 8 with the latest patches 108528-23
> Ultra 2 system
>
> Here is the line in cron:
> 04 12 * * * truss /etc/rc2.d/S99apache -print
> >/etc/cron.d/apache_start2
>
> also I have had cron look like:
> 04 12 * * * truss /netra/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl
> -print >/etc/cron.d/apache_start2
>
>
> Either way the result is:
> /netra/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd could not be
> started
>
>
> There is nothing in the apache error log file about this.
>
> The cron log shows:
>
> > root 11642 c Sun Aug 31 10:10:00 2003
> < root 11642 c Sun Aug 31 10:10:00 2003 rc=1
> > CMD: truss /netra/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl startssl -print
>/etc/cron.d/apache_start2
>
> Any insight would be great!
>
> Thank you
>
> Christophe

On my FreeBSD 5.1 system apache2 starts with a
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh file and in it:

== begin code ==
#!/bin/sh
PREFIX=/usr/local

case "$1" in
start)

[ "ssl" = "ssl" -a -f "$PREFIX/etc/apache2/ssl.crt/server.crt" ] && SSL=ssl
[ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/apachectl ] && ${PREFIX}/sbin/apachectl start${SSL} >
/dev/null && echo -n ' apache2'
;;
stop)
[ -r /var/run/httpd.pid ] && ${PREFIX}/sbin/apachectl stop > /dev/null &&
echo -n ' apache2'
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
;;
esac

exit 0

== end code ==

I'm sure my email client will ruin that code.

Rach