[TriLUG] What have I done ( httpd ) ?

[Kevin Hunter]

BINGO!  reinstalling mailcap fixed it.  So much for it being
unnecessary.

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On 11/26/2001 at 4:46 PM Jeremy P wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Kevin Hunter wrote:
>
>> >Unless something is seriously wrong with your httpd binary, it
>> should
>> >always put something in error_log when you try to start it
(unless
>> >error_log is unwriteable or something).  Are you sure that you're
>> reading
>> >the log correctly?  Run "tail -f error_log" in one window, and
>> "service
>> >httpd start" in another, and see what happens.  Also check
>> >/var/log/boot.log which gets output of the "service" command
(sort
>> of).
>> 
>> All I see is :
>> [Mon Nov 26 16:23:21 2001] [error] (2)No such file or directory:
>> could not 
>> open mime types log file /etc/mime.types.
>
>Well apparently /etc/mime.types got clobbered somehow.  On my
system,
>/etc/mime.types is owned by the "mailcap" package; reinstall mailcap
and
>see what happens.  (Also check the permissions.)
>
>Every error message is important...I'll bet this is the root of your
>problem.
>
>--Jeremy
>
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