[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start -RESOLVED, THANKS!
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 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. [...] >The system is a member of an NIS domain, but I can't image that apache >would require an NIS-based account. What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf for 'passwd'? Joost - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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. If you’re ever in New Mexico, look me up, I OWE YOU LUNCH!! Thanks a million!! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:25 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 services that have to be explicitly set but I don’t know what they are. Sorry about that. But I think you have a direction to look now. Gary Wayne Smith On 1/24/06 10:01 AM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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!! Thanks! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:05 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 some of the applications. Gary Wayne Smith From: Kermit Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:22 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 the httpd.conf file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your advice, though! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:13 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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!! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:25 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 services that have to be explicitly set but I don’t know what they are. Sorry about that. But I think you have a direction to look now. Gary Wayne Smith On 1/24/06 10:01 AM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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!! Thanks! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:05 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 some of the applications. Gary Wayne Smith From: Kermit Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:22 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 the httpd.conf file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your advice, though! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:13 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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 services that have to be explicitly set but I don’t know what they are. Sorry about that. But I think you have a direction to look now. Gary Wayne Smith On 1/24/06 10:01 AM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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!! Thanks! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:05 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 some of the applications. Gary Wayne Smith From: Kermit Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:22 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 the httpd.conf file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your advice, though! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:13 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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!! Thanks! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:05 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 some of the applications. Gary Wayne Smith From: Kermit Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:22 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 the httpd.conf file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your advice, though! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:13 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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 some of the applications. Gary Wayne Smith From: Kermit Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:22 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 the httpd.conf file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your advice, though! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:13 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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 the httpd.conf file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your advice, though! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:13 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: 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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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 before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such. Gary On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
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 failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
Kermit, I think you missed the point. In order to run Apache under the user apache and group apache they must have a group and a user with that same name. By default RHEL 4 creates the user/group apache as follows: passwd: apache:x:48:48:Apache:/var/www:/sbin/nologin group: apache:x:48: If these don't exist then it can't start as that user. Also, apache should not be admin. It is a normal user. But you must start it as a root user as it needs to use a privileged port. Hope that helps, Gary Wayne Smith On 1/23/06 12:36 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried creating a different user called www-data (group of same name, > group populated with that user) and still received the same error message. > I've set the web daemon's username to my username, (NIS not local) and it > launched successfully. I believe the only difference is that my account may > have admin rights. > > Kermit Short > System Administrator > CCN-DC-1 D-Div > > ph: 7-6360 > pg: 4-5165 > em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 for apache to > use that user and group? > > Keith > > In theory, theory and practice are the same; > In practice they are not. > > On Mon, 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 error message when trying to start the daemon >> SYSV style (using the init.d startup script): httpd: bad >> user name apache. >> >> Kermit Short >> >> System Administrator >> >> CCN-DC-1 D-Div > k > > - > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >" from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > - > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >" from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
I've tried creating a different user called www-data (group of same name, group populated with that user) and still received the same error message. I've set the web daemon's username to my username, (NIS not local) and it launched successfully. I believe the only difference is that my account may have admin rights. Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 for apache to use that user and group? Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Mon, 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 error message when trying to start the daemon > SYSV style (using the init.d startup script): httpd: bad > user name apache. > > Kermit Short > > System Administrator > > CCN-DC-1 D-Div k - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 for apache to use that user and group? Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Mon, 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 error message when trying to start the daemon > SYSV style (using the init.d startup script): httpd: bad > user name apache. > > Kermit Short > > System Administrator > > CCN-DC-1 D-Div k - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[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 (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 original RedHat CD. I’ve made sure that the user apache is a member of the group apache. The system is a member of an NIS domain, but I can’t image that apache would require an NIS-based account. Has anyone seen something like this before? Thanks in advance for your help! Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
