>> Have there been any complaints about how 1.3 has been doing it for
>> ages?
> 
> 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. I have been bitten by this a long time ago before I knew what was
going on. I favor leaving this feature out of the 2.0 build process.

S.

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