spell service failure - zmspellctl status fails

[zachhale]

I recently noticed that the spell service on our zimbra install is not running. I read up and tried running "sh -x zmspellctl status" in the /opt/zimbra/bin folder but I am getting this error response:

[zimbra@mail bin]$ sh -x zmspellctl status
+ BASE=/opt/zimbra
+ SCRIPTS=zmapachectl
+ case "$1" in
+ STATUS=0
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/zmapachectl status
/opt/zimbra/bin/zmapachectl: line 51: kill: (9802) - No such process
+ R=1
+ '[' 1 -ne 0 ']'
+ STATUS=1
+ exit 1

I tried running "sh -x zmapachectl status" and it gave the same error for kill 9802 no such process.

Any insight as to what is happening here or where to further my troubleshooting?

Thanks,
Zach

[bobby]

what's the output of this:

ps 9802
cat /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid 
cat /opt/zimbra/log/httpd_error.log

try this:

rm /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid
sh-x ~/bin/zmspellctl start

[zachhale]

Thanks for the reply. I did the first section:

# ps 9802
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
# cat /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid 
9802
# cat /opt/zimbra/log/httpd_error.log 
[Fri Dec 22 14:39:42 2006] [warn] pid file /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Fri Dec 22 14:39:42 2006] [error] (13)Permission denied: could not create /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid
[Fri Dec 22 14:39:42 2006] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid
[Tue Jan 02 09:16:51 2007] [warn] pid file /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Tue Jan 02 09:16:51 2007] [error] (13)Permission denied: could not create /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid
[Tue Jan 02 09:16:51 2007] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid

And then rm'ed the httpd.pid and then:

$ sh -x zmspellctl start
+ BASE=/opt/zimbra
+ SCRIPTS=zmapachectl
+ case "$1" in
+ for i in '$SCRIPTS'
+ /opt/zimbra/bin/zmapachectl start

Now everything works! Thank you!! What was the issue?

[bobby]

>
[Fri Dec 22 14:39:42 2006] [warn] pid file /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Fri Dec 22 14:39:42 2006] [error] (13)Permission denied: could not create /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid
[Fri Dec 22 14:39:42 2006] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file /opt/zimbra/log/httpd.pid
>

maybe the zimbra user didn't have write access to the pid file. did you run zmcontrol or zmspellctl before as root?