I have had a few of those. I recall we had one setup where when apache crashed, it screwed up the PID file, so when you did an apachctl call, it listed the service as already running, but it wasn't.

Is there a tool to split error logs based on which virtual host they're for? I know that split-logfile can do it for access logs but since error logs are ...

Dave tackles analysis of the ugly Apache web server log. I know, in my last article I promised I'd jump back into the mail merge program I started building a while back. Since I'm having some hiccups ...