Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start

["Gary W. Smith" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [users@httpd] 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" <k_short@xxxxxxxx> 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!
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