On Thursday 25 July 2002 16.50, johannes m. richter wrote: > >Sorry if this is covered somewhere else which I failed to find. But..., is > > it normal that the first instance of apache2 is running as root? > > Yes because if it wasn't it would be unable to bind to port 80. (on usual > Unix system; there's patches for some systems out there where you dont have > to be root to bind to low port, but they aren't very common [yet?]) > j.
Aha!, of course. Thanks to "johannes m. richter" and "Werner Schalk" for the quick answer. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com