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httpd fails without error when LockFile cannot be written to

           Summary: httpd fails without error when LockFile cannot be
                    written to
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.45
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: prefork
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: eddy@bsd.sh
                CC: eddy@bsd.sh


In trying to configure httpd-2.0.45 on FreeBSD 5.0-Release to spawn all 
processes as an unprivelaged user, I came across the following behavior. When 
you have set file permissions, binding port, and User in httpd.conf and then 
execute httpd via apachectl thus 'su -m www -c "/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl 
start"' the command exits, no httpd instances are spawned, and no debugging 
information is written to Error_Log. This occurs even with the error log 
setting set to "debug". Upon investigation I found that the issue was the 
default location of LockFile was not user writeable and easily corrected the 
situation (go truss). However, some sort of logging should be enabled if 
possible on that file and written to Error_Log or stderr as with all other 
EPERM issues. Thanks.

www# su -m www -c "/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start"
www# ps auxwww|grep apache|grep -v grep
www# ls -al *error_log
-rw-r--r--  1 www  wheel  0 May 12 00:36 apt.antinode.net-error_log

www# su -m www
www# truss -f /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
<snip>
58630: open("/usr/local/apache/logs/accept.lock.58630",0xa01,0600) 
ERR#13 'Permission denied'
SIGNAL 11
SIGNAL 11
Process stopped because of:  16
process exit, rval = 11

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