> Nope, httpd totally drops. I can't make any connections via lynx, and its
> process doesn't show up in a ps -aux...

Well, it must be dying after daemonizing.

> I was using just plain 'httpd'...the included apachectl script starts it
> this way...

OK.  That should be using the compiled-in default ServerRoot, then.  Are
you compiling from the Apache dist, or in the packages collection?

I've run with both the cdefault ServerRoot, and with the -d option
(httpd -d /a/http).  Here's a partial listing of /a/http:

drwxr-xr-x   2 http    http    512 Feb  3  1998 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 http    http    512 Feb 13  1998 conf
drwxr-xr-x   3 http    http    512 May 11 10:17 htdocs
drwxr-xr-x   2 http    http   2048 Jan  5  1998 icons
drwxr-xr-x   2 http    http   1536 Aug 22 04:32 logs

Note that conf, htdocs, and logs are all there.  It will look for the
config files under /a/http/conf/.

Does that help any?

Ummm...  I also think that the apache install will not install the
configuration files or anything like that, and will not populate
ServerRoot at all.

-allen

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                    Allen Briggs - briggs@ninthwonder.com