httpd not starting

[Grahame Jordan]

Hi!

I have configured freeside to run by itself using a normal httpd.conf on 
a RH7.3 machine.

I have changed:
DocumentRoot /var/www/freeside
User freeside
Group freeside

Added lines:
PerlModule HTML::Mason
<Directory /var/www/freeside/masondocs>
     <Files ~ (\.cgi)>
         AddHandler perl-script .cgi
         PerlHandler HTML::Mason
     </Files>
     <Perl>
         require "/etc/httpd/conf/handler.pl";
     </Perl>
     PerlSetVar Global /usr/local/etc/freeside/masondata/
     AuthName Freeside
     AuthType Basic
     AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/htpasswd.freeside
     require valid-user
</Directory>

Set configurables in handler.pl to:
my $interp = new HTML::Mason::Interp (parser=>$parser,
 
comp_root=>'/var/www/freeside/masondocs',
 
data_dir=>'/usr/local/etc/freeside/masondata',
                                       out_mode=>'stream',
                                      );

However when I try to start httpd it does not start.   /etc/init.d/httpd 
start does sday "OK"  but it dies on the fork().

Using strace it ends like this:
strace -f httpd -DHAVE-PERL
open("/etc/httpd/logs/access_log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0644) = 4
fcntl64(4, F_DUPFD, 15)                 = 16
close(4)                                = 0
chdir("/")                              = 0
fork()                                  = 17582
[pid 17582] getpid()                    = 17582
[pid 17582] setsid()                    = 17582
[pid 17582] close(0)                    = 0
[pid 17582] open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY) = 0
[pid 17582] close(1)                    = 0
[pid 17582] open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 1
[pid 17582] getpid()                    = 17582
[pid 17582] time(NULL)                  = 1041012784
[pid 17574] _exit(0)                    = ?
[pid 17582] close(16)                   = 0
[pid 17582] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
[pid 17582] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
.
.
.
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---

What am I doing wrong here??????



Thanks

Grahame Jordan