Gary-
I set the config file to
disable SELinux entirely, rebooted the server, and the daemon now launches. If
you’re ever in New Mexico,
look me up, I OWE YOU LUNCH!! Thanks a million!!
Kermit Short
System
Administrator
CCN-DC-1 D-Div
ph: 7-6360
pg: 4-5165
em: k_short@xxxxxxxx
From: Gary W. Smith
[mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
11:25 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Apache
2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
Kermit,
Unforuntately I don’t run selinux but we choose it once for a server
build and nothing worked right. When we did disabled it then everything
magically worked. I guess there are some settings for services that have
to be explicitly set but I don’t know what they are.
Sorry about that. But I think you have a direction to look now.
Gary Wayne Smith
On 1/24/06 10:01 AM, "Kermit Short" <k_short@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gary-
Wow!
Indeed, somehow SELinux was enabled. I’ve disabled it in the config
file, but knowing nothing about SELinux, I don’t know what else I need to
do…your input is gratefully welcomed!!
Thanks!
Kermit Short
System
Administrator
CCN-DC-1 D-Div
ph:
7-6360
pg: 4-5165
em: k_short@xxxxxxxx <mailto:k_short@xxxxxxxx>
From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006
8:05 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Apache
2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
Kermit,
I know that it runs fine out of the box as we have multiple RHEL 4 servers.
Did you enable selinux by chance as part of the configuration? I
recall this being a problem some time ago for some of the applications.
Gary Wayne Smith
From: Kermit Short [mailto:k_short@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006
3:22 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Apache
2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start
Gary-
I
understand. I’m not logging in as these users. What I meant
by saying that I attempted to run apache as the users “apache” and
“www-data”, was that I specified those usernames in the httpd.conf
file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a
direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd
start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive
the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your
advice, though!
Kermit Short
System
Administrator
CCN-DC-1 D-Div
ph:
7-6360
pg: 4-5165
em: k_short@xxxxxxxx <mailto:k_short@xxxxxxxx>
From: Gary W.
Smith [mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006
4:13 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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!
Kermit Short
System Administrator
CCN-DC-1
D-Div
ph:
7-6360
pg: 4-5165
em: k_short@xxxxxxxx <mailto:k_short@xxxxxxxx>
