HTTPD will not stay running

[thepod41]

I have installed apache 2.0.35 on a slackware system (latest slak release)...

i try starting apache by using the command /usr/local/apache2/apachectl start

and it appears to run fine.. it starts up the httpd process

./apachectl start: httpd started

but then i check all processes running on the system (ps -ef)and nothing is there about httpd!

when i try to restart using apachectl restart it says that httpd is not running, when it supposedly just started up a second ago.

i try to run apachectl status and it cant connect to local host, probably because httpd is not running, am i right?

how do i fix this ??

thanks

 

[thepod41]

I am getting this error in the error_log file:

[emerg] (22)Invalid argument: Couldn't set permissions on cross-process lock


if that helps.
thanks!