httpd dead but subsys locked

[pushback]

Hi, I am running RH 7.3 with Apache

Server version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
Server built: Oct 23 2002 14:52:50

I just went to restart my server and it will not start. Upon executing the status command I get this error.

athena[root]:/var/run-> service httpd status
httpd dead but subsys locked

Any ideas?

Thanks

[bwkaz]

Look in the /var/lock/subsys/ directory for a file that looks like it would have something to do with web serving. (It might be called "http" or "httpd" or something else, I'm not really sure.)

Delete it. Then try to start Apache again.