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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Tomas Spångberg <to...@jarlmagnussonab.se> on 2002/03/21 12:43:25 UTC
httpd fails to start
Hi all!
I have ApacheJServ-1.1.2-3 installed on RH 6.0
When I try to start it I get the following msg:
jml1(root)pts/0: apachectl restart
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart: httpd not running, trying to start
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart: httpd started
and the following in httpd/error_log:
jml1(root)pts/0: tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten --
Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) configured --
resuming normal operations
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
need to modify the User directive
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
need to modify the User directive
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
need to modify the User directive
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
need to modify the User directive
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
need to modify the User directive
[Thu Mar 21 11:46:51 2002] [alert] Child 31781 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
Any sugestions?
// Tomas
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Re: httpd fails to start
Posted by Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>.
Tomas Spångberg wrote:
>
> Ok, thank you, but how do I start it with user "apahe"?
>
You don't. You continue to start as root, but then apache spawns all the
httpd daemons as user "apache". This is a key feature of apache - it
starts as root and so gets access to port 80 etc. but then all the
servers that interact with the outside world are all processes belonging
to a less-privileged user.
BTW, you *can* start as user "apache" if you don't mind binding to a
port greater than 1024. To do this, just login as "apache" and issue the
"apachectl start" command.
Rgds,
Owen Boyle.
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Re: httpd fails to start
Posted by Tomas Spångberg <to...@jarlmagnussonab.se>.
Ok, thank you, but how do I start it with user "apahe"?
// Tomas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Boyle" <ob...@bourse.ch>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: httpd fails to start
> Tomas Spångberg wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have ApacheJServ-1.1.2-3 installed on RH 6.0
> >
> > When I try to start it I get the following msg:
> >....
> > [Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
> > getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
> > need to modify the User directive
> > [Thu Mar 21 11:46:51 2002] [alert] Child 31781 returned a Fatal error...
> > Apache is exiting!
>
> This is a bug in 1.3.22 - if you don't define User and Group, the
> defaults don't work. To fix:
>
> - Upgrade to 1.3.23 (probably you can't since it's bundled with JServ)
>
> or
>
> - Define User and Group to some real values, e.g. create a user "apache"
> in the group "users" and do:
>
> User apache
> Group users
>
> Rgds,
>
> Owen Boyle.
>
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Re: httpd fails to start
Posted by Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>.
Tomas Spångberg wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I have ApacheJServ-1.1.2-3 installed on RH 6.0
>
> When I try to start it I get the following msg:
>....
> [Thu Mar 21 11:46:50 2002] [alert] (2)Filen eller katalogen finns inte:
> getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably
> need to modify the User directive
> [Thu Mar 21 11:46:51 2002] [alert] Child 31781 returned a Fatal error...
> Apache is exiting!
This is a bug in 1.3.22 - if you don't define User and Group, the
defaults don't work. To fix:
- Upgrade to 1.3.23 (probably you can't since it's bundled with JServ)
or
- Define User and Group to some real values, e.g. create a user "apache"
in the group "users" and do:
User apache
Group users
Rgds,
Owen Boyle.
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