2004-Sep-21

Under BSD/OS 4.2, Apache logged:

[Tue Sep 21 18:44:03 2004] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: coul
d not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed

Disks were not full. This was some semaphore problem. ipcs shows some semaphores for owner www and group www, but httpd was not running. I used "ipcrm -s ID-NUM" to remove each semphore and apache could then be started up. This has happened to me a few times under BSD/OS this past couple years.