On a fresh installation of Alpine 1.9 Alpha15, after boot up, rc-status reports that mini_httpd is stopped. When trying to start mini_httpd with /etc/init.d/mini_httpd start, the following is returned in /var/log/messages:

daemon.crit mini_httpd[3184]: bind :: - Address already in use
daemon.crit mini_httpd[3184]: bind 0.0.0.0 - Address already in use
daemon.crit mini_httpd[3184]: can’t bind to any address
daemon.err /etc/init.d/mini_httpd[3166]: ERROR: mini_httpd failed to start

/etc/mini_httpd is configured with port=443
netstat -n -l -p | grep 443 reports that only mini_httpd is on port 443.
ps | grep mini_httpd returns only 1 running instance of mini_httpd

rc-status reports mini_httpd status as stopped.

Running killall mini_httpd and then starting mini_httpd with /etc/init.d/mini_httpd start allows the service to start successfully.

So it appears as if openrc believes that mini_httpd has not started, while it actually running.

(from redmine: issue id 57, created on 2009-06-29, closed on 2009-08-19)

• Changesets:
  • Revision b6b6ef01 on 2009-07-03T07:10:03Z:

extra/mini_httpd: openrc fixes. add support for multiple instances

fixes #57