From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 17:40:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A1516A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:40:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FA6343D3F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:40:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 3057 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2005 17:40:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 7 Jan 2005 17:40:28 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <41DEC98C.4000409@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:40:28 +0000 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Becker References: <41DE7615.6010502@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41DE7615.6010502@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apachectl oddness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:40:31 -0000 Robin Becker wrote: > I'm running standard freeBSD 4.9 and am port upgrading apache2. I think > the old version was 2.50_3 and the new is 2.52_4. In the latest build I > have added WITH_THREADS=1 as I need this for mod_python. > > I notice now that apachectl startssl has problems reading the pass > phrase. I normally do this through the web using ssh/su and find that my > putty terminal gets locked up when I enter the phrase at the prompt. > > The apachectl startssl fails for the first pass phrase entry at the > console, but the second seems to work. I had to kill the previously hung > httpd process. > > Experimenting shows that > > echo "pass phrase" | apachectl startssl > > works fine even through ssh. Am I stupid or doing something wrong? Seems that the problem is caused by using WITH_THREADS=1. For various reasons I needed to reinstall without threads and now see that the pass phrase entry works fine. -- Robin Becker