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# 8  
Old 07-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Good job, glad it is working now. Those pesky httpd.pid files can cause problems.

Regarding apache process ownership, you might be OK already.

Did you check the config file?

Normally, there is a line in the httpd.conf (apache.conf or apache2.conf) file where you specify the process owner, something like:

Code:
Port 80
User apache
Group apache

It is unusual for apache, as I recall, to have a default configuration file with User root.

Can you post yours?
here is the config located in
Code:
/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

Code:
User nobody
Group nobody
</Ifmodule>
</IfModule>
Listen 80

# 9  
Old 07-05-2009
And after you deleted the pid file (httpd.pid) and restarted apache who owns that file now?

Also, when you do a ps <whatever> who owns the processes that are running apache now?

Please post. Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 16:47 ---------- Previous update was at 16:43 ----------

Also, does your machine actually have a User nobody and Group nobody?
# 10  
Old 07-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Also, does your machine actually have a User nobody and Group nobody?
If it's Solaris, it does.
# 11  
Old 07-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
If it's Solaris, it does.
Understood.

I tend to like to confirm they exist (or do not exist), since they can be easily removed, especially when we don't fully know the history of the machine.
# 12  
Old 07-05-2009
as reborg said If it's Solaris, it does.
Code:
-bash-3.00$ grep nobody /etc/passwd

reveals an output like the following
Code:
nobody:x:60001:60001:NFS Anonymous Access User:/:
nobody4:x:65534:65534:SunOS 4.x NFS Anonymous Access User:/:

Code:
-bash-3.00$ grep nobody /etc/group

reveals an output like this
Code:
nobody::60001:

Code:
ps -eaf

reveals the following
Code:
bash-3.00$ ps -eaf | grep httpd | grep -v grep
  nobody  1916  1911   0 22:39:17 ?           0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
    root  1911     1   0 22:39:16 ?           0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
  nobody  1913  1911   0 22:39:17 ?           0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
  nobody  1915  1911   0 22:39:17 ?           0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
  nobody  1914  1911   0 22:39:17 ?           0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
  nobody  1912  1911   0 22:39:17 ?           0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start

ls -l httpd.pid reveals the following

Code:
bash-3.00$ ls -l /usr/local/apache2/logs/
total 433464
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Mar 11 12:42 access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     3489021 Sep  3  2007 access_log.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     100272126 Jul  5 22:36 dummy-host.example.com-access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     87096852 Mar  5 23:11 dummy-host.example.com-access_log.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     13221154 Jul  5 14:16 dummy-host.example.com-error_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     9175989 Mar  5 23:10 dummy-host.example.com-error_log.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     5909800 Jul  5 22:39 error_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     2522824 Mar  5 23:09 error_log.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          5 Jul  5 22:39 httpd.pid
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       67584 Jul  5 22:39 jk-runtime-status
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           1 Jul  5 22:39 jk-runtime-status.lock

# 13  
Old 07-07-2009
hey reborg and Neo
i posted
Code:
ls -l /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid

Code:
-bash-3.00$ grep nobody /etc/passwd

and so on
what's next any idea
# 14  
Old 07-07-2009
What's the exact problem? apache is up and running, as you said. What is the issue?
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