>Sounds like either the paths used for the PID file are mismatched between
>the main apache binary and apachectl or possibly that the binaries
>themselves are mismatched.

Humm... I just installed the package available from the NetBSD.org ftp 
site. Maybe whoever made the package had a different path compiled into 
it.

Now that I have Apache running, I should probably unload it and go grab 
the latest version from Apache.org (since I know a security fix was just 
issued). Maybe when I build my own copy it will work right.

>By any chance did you install one version of
>apache over another existing one?

Yes and No. At this particular moment, I have installed v2, then 
uninstalled it. Then installed v1 (since all the walkthrus I could find 
talked about v1), then uninstalled it, and have now reinstalled v2.

However, back when I first installed v2 before any other versions had 
been installed I had the same problem with the shutdown, so I don't 
*think* it is an over-install that is the source of the problem.

-chris
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