On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Joshua Slive wrote: > Yes. I've seen many confused people posting to > comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix who where caught by exactly this > issue. It usually starts with a basic query like "I installed apache and > it says that it started successfully, but I can't access it." This is > VERY difficult to debug, because it could be caused by any number of > things. On the other hand, the problem report "I tried to start apache, > but the error log says permission denied binding to port 80" is trivial > to debug.
I agree. +1 to leaving it out. -0 to putting it back in. Consistency is a good thing... where in this case that means I think it should always install on the same port regardless of uid and all. Historical consistency takes the backburner for the reasons Joshua mentioned. --Cliff
