Last time I downloaded apache it said everyone should upgrade to 1.3.20... 
You might try that...

on 7/9/01 4:06 PM, gnomeboy at zen2now@qwest.net wrote:

>running into a strange error when restarting httpd. it resumes normal 
>operation but returns this:
>
>Session terminated, killing shell...[Mon Jul  9 11:59:11 2001] [notice] 
>Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)  (Red Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.6.6 OpenSSL/0.9.5a 
>PHP/4.0.3pl1 mod_perl/1.24 configured -- resuming normal operations
>bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
> ...killed.
>
>has anyone ever seen this?
>
>slr.
>