On my FreeBSD server apache just stopped responding this morning
I found this in my error log

[Wed Oct 24 05:12:29 2001] [warn] child process 66515 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Wed Oct 24 05:12:29 2001] [warn] child process 66516 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Wed Oct 24 05:12:32 2001] [crit] (48)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 443
[Wed Oct 24 05:12:33 2001] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Oct 24 05:17:54 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.24_01 mod_throttle/2.11 PHP/4.0.6 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.3 OpenSSL/0.9.6b configured -- resuming normal operations

Does someone have a clue what's going on?? I'm running plesk on the server, so all is plesk integrated.
the notice of 5:17 is a server reboot, after that all worked fine again

Start apache with the apacehctl script and see what error it gives you.

IM going to take a guess. I think it tried to restart. It tried to close child prossess of itself that were not there. Then it tried to start again, but it must of still been running because it could not bind to that port.

Take a look here
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=177683#post177683