freebsd stable - May 2004 - Apache not interpreting PHP after a few minutes?

Hello,

I have 2 (of about 50 servers) where it looks like that Apache looses 
the PHP module after a few Minutes and Phpmyadmin sends the PHP source 
code. When starting Apache everything works fine and also when giving a 
kill -HUP on Apache it works for a few minutes again. This happens on a 
4.9 and on a 5.2.1 box which are the only ones having php 4.3.4 on it. 
Any ideas or known problems? Many thanks for any hint.

Server Version: Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_12 Perl/v5.6.1 
PHP/4.3.4 mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.7c-p1
Server Built: Mar 18 2004 00:06:51
API Version: 20020903:4
Hostname/port: host.name:443
Timeouts: connection: 300    keep-alive: 300
MPM Name: Prefork
MPM Information: Max Daemons: 150 Threaded: no Forked: yes
Server Root: /usr/local
Config File: etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Module Name: sapi_apache2.c
Content handlers: yes
Configuration Phase Participation: Create Directory Config, Merge 
Directory Configs
Request Phase Participation: none
Module Directives:
     php_value - PHP Value Modifier
     php_flag - PHP Flag Modifier
     php_admin_value - PHP Value Modifier (Admin)
     php_admin_flag - PHP Flag Modifier (Admin)
     PHPINIDir - Directory containing the php.ini file
Current Configuration:
     <Directory "/usr/local/www/data">
       php_flag engine Off
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Directory>
     <Directory /usr/home/www/public_html>
       php_flag engine On
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Directory>
     <Directory /usr/home/www/public_html/phpmyadmin>
       php_flag engine On
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Directory>
     <Directory "/usr/local/www/icons">
       php_flag engine Off
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Directory>
     <Directory "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin">
       php_flag engine Off
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Directory>
     <Directory "/usr/local/www/error">
       php_flag engine Off
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Directory>
     <VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
       php_flag engine Off
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </VirtualHost>
     <VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
       php_flag engine Off
       php_flag display_errors Off
     </Location>

Module Name: mod_perl.c
Content handlers: yes
Configuration Phase Participation: Create Directory Config, Merge 
Directory Configs, Create Server Config, Merge Server Configs
Request Phase Participation: Post-Read Request, Header Parse, Translate 
Path, Check Access, Verify User ID, Verify User Access, Check Type, 
Fixups, Logging
Module Directives:
     PerlSwitches - Perl Switches
     PerlModule - PerlModule
     PerlRequire - PerlRequire
     PerlOptions - Perl Options
     PerlInitHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlSetVar - PerlSetVar
     PerlAddVar - PerlAddVar
     PerlSetEnv - PerlSetEnv
     PerlPassEnv - PerlPassEnv
     <Perl - Perl Code
     Perl - Perl Code
     PerlSetInputFilter - filter[;filter]
     PerlSetOutputFilter - filter[;filter]
     =pod - Start of POD
     =back - End of =over
     =cut - End of POD
     __END__ - Stop reading config
     PerlLoadModule - A Perl module
     PerlSendHeader - Tell mod_perl to scan output for HTTP headers
     PerlSetupEnv - Turn setup of %ENV On or Off
     PerlHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlTaintCheck - Turn on -T switch
     PerlWarn - Turn on -w switch
     PerlChildInitHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlChildExitHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlOpenLogsHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlPostConfigHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlPreConnectionHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlProcessConnectionHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlHeaderParserHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlAccessHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlAuthenHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlAuthzHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlTypeHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlFixupHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlResponseHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlLogHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlCleanupHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlInputFilterHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlOutputFilterHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlPostReadRequestHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlTransHandler - Subroutine name
     PerlMapToStorageHandler - Subroutine name
Current Configuration:
     PerlModule Apache2
     PerlModule Apache::compat
     <VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
       PerlRequire "/usr/local/etc/apache2/perl-conf/conf.pl
     <Location "/metadot/">
         PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
     </Location>

-- 
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Karl M. Joch

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