I checked the last few pages and didn't see any threads on this issue. I hope this makes sense as I'm not really a Unix guy and this falls out of my limited expertise.<BR><BR>What I'm trying to do is ...

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.