[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start -RESOLVED, THANKS!

2006-01-25 Thread Kermit Short
Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joost de Heer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@httpd.apache.org Subject: >I'm having trouble getting

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-24 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Deal... On 1/24/06 10:31 AM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gary- I set the config file to disable SELinux entirely, rebooted the server, and the daemon now launches.

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-24 Thread Kermit Short
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Gary-     I set the config file to disable SELinux entirely, rebooted the server, and the daemon now launches.  If you’re ever in New Mexico, look me up, I OWE YOU LUNCH!!  Thanks a million

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-24 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Kermit, Unforuntately I don’t run selinux but we choose it once for a server build and nothing worked right.  When we did disabled it then everything magically worked.  I guess there are some settings for

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-24 Thread Kermit Short
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Gary-     Wow!  Indeed, somehow SELinux was enabled.  I’ve disabled it in the config file, but knowing nothing about SELinux, I don’t know what else I need to do…your input is gratefully welcomed

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Kermit,   I know that it runs fine out of the box as we have multiple RHEL 4 servers.  Did you enable selinux by chance as part of the configuration?  I recall this being a problem some time ago for

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Kermit Short
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Gary-     I understand.  I’m not logging in as these users.  What I meant by saying that I attempted to run apache as the users “apache” and “www-data”, was that I specified those usernames in

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start Kermit, You don’t lunch it under the non-privileged account.  You luanch it under root and then Apache will change the thread to run under the user your specify under the configuration file.  As mentioned

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Kermit Short
Thanks to Gary and Keith for their input!  Indeed, RHEL 4 did create the apache accounts.  In an attempt to verify that the accounts were not created improperly, I manually created another non-administrative account and attempted to launch the daemon under that identity.  Both attempts fail

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
CTED] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:24 PM > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will > not start > > > What about creating a unique user account and group for > apache to run under. Then setting httpd.conf fo

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Kermit Short
on, 23 Jan 2006, Kermit Short wrote: > To: users@httpd.apache.org From: Kermit Short > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on > RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start > > I'm having trouble getting the HTTPD process to kick off. > I receive an e

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread httpd2
org From: Kermit Short > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on > RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start > > I'm having trouble getting the HTTPD process to kick off. > I receive an error message when trying to start the daemon > SYSV style

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

2006-01-23 Thread Kermit Short
I’m having trouble getting the HTTPD process to kick off.  I receive an error message when trying to start the daemon SYSV style (using the init.d startup script): httpd: bad user name apache.   I have searched and searched, can’t find a thing.  I’ve re-installed the RPMs from the origina