Dear All i have a redhad linux server 9 running apache httpd-2.0.40-8 and has been workin fine for long time. recently i found that after a restart httpd was not running and when i try to restart it it said Starting httpd: httpd: bad group name apache. but in my /etc/passwd there is user apache and also there is a group apache i also deleted the user n group apache and recreated them but same problem the i used usser nobody and group nobody in httpd.conf file and restated apache it it worked perfectly OK but i have some appication that requires http running as user apache... appreciate your help regards simon -- Simon D'cunha ( NETWORK ADMIN ) KUWAIT MUNICIPLAITY --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx