Apache error httpd: (98)

I'm running centos 3, apache 2.055/php4.4.1. Today at midnight when directadmin restarted httpd to tally the logs, it took almost 5 minutes for httpd to restart. The system message log shows the following:

Nov 28 00:11:02 50 httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: no listening sockets available, shutting down
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: Unable to open logs
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: httpd startup failed
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: httpd shutdown failed
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: no listening sockets available, shutting down
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: Unable to open logs
Nov 28 00:11:04 50 httpd: httpd startup failed
...

Nov 28 00:15:01 50 httpd: httpd startup succeeded

This error somehow wiped out all my httpd logs. I ran rootkit, checked tmp folder and looked for any process running on port 443, but found nothing. Anyone know the cause of this problem and how to prevent it from happening again?

 

 

 

 

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