[BUG]

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

Digital Unix report.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:10:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Burkhalter Anton <ab...@gfai.ch>
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To: apache@apache.org
Subject: apache_1.2.0 on Digital Unix (OSF1)
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Hi all,

I have successfull generated and installed apache 1.2.0 on my Digital Unix
box running OSF1/3.0.

I had some troubles to start the server: /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/error_log

	[Tue Jun 24 18:04:40 1997] setgid: Invalid argument
	[Tue Jun 24 18:04:40 1997] - unable to set group id

This is the entry in /etc/passwd:

	nobody:*Nologin:65534:65534:anonymous NFS user:/:


The problem comes from the following definitions:

httpd.h:
	.
	.
	#ifndef DEFAULT_USER
	#define DEFAULT_USER "#-1"
	#endif
	#ifndef DEFAULT_GROUP
	#define DEFAULT_GROUP "#-1"
	#endif
	.
	.

httpd.conf:
User nobody
Group #-1


==> Digital Unix is a 64bit operating system #-1 is 4294967295
    This value is not accepted by the function "setgid"

This is the location in http_main.c:

   1434 if (setgid(group_id) == -1) {
   1435     log_unixerr("setgid", NULL, "unable to set group id", server_conf);
   1436     exit (1);
   1437 }

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To fix the problem I have modified httpd.conf:
.
User nobody
Group #65534
.

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It is maybe not a bad idea to change httpd.h in the following way:

        .
        .
        #ifndef DEFAULT_USER
        #define DEFAULT_USER "#65534"
        #endif
        #ifndef DEFAULT_GROUP
        #define DEFAULT_GROUP "#65534"
        #endif
        .
        .

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I hope that you can use this information.

Have a nice day,

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