Sorry... silly of me not to have put in more information...
httpd is down.
service httpd-e-smith status
returns "down: /service/httpd-e-smith: 1s, want up"
however
service httpd-admin status
returns "run: /service/httpd-admin: (pid 4056) 2803s, normally down; run: log: (pid 2755) 2824s"
/var/log/httpd/admin_error_log
[Fri May 15 11:52:07 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri May 15 11:52:07 2009] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Fri May 15 11:52:07 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri May 15 11:52:07 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri May 15 11:52:08 2009] [emerg] (28)No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock
[Fri May 15 11:52:09 2009] [error] (28)No space left on device: Cannot create SSLMutex
Configuration Failed
[Fri May 15 11:52:10 2009] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed
[Fri May 15 11:52:11 2009] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed
[Fri May 15 11:55:36 2009] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Fri May 15 11:55:36 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri May 15 11:55:36 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri May 15 11:55:37 2009] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
/var/log/httpd/error_log is full of
[Fri May 15 12:46:35 2009] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed
[Fri May 15 12:46:36 2009] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed
and finally,
/etc/init.d/httpd start
returns [Failed]
might be a space issue... df -h returns;
/dev/mapper/main-root
99G 3.3G 90G 4% /
/dev/sda1 99M 42M 52M 45% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm