Andre, Thanks for your information.I don?t see this behaviour in Apache 1.3.34. Is this behaviour new in Apache 2.X? Thanks ans Regards, Prathima. -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:aw@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:27 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Apache process PPID=1 in Solaris Prathima Dandapani -X (pdandapa - HCL at Cisco) wrote: > Hi All, > > When I start Apache 2.2.10 in Solaris 9 server from the > shell,I see the PPID of Apache process as 1. > Is the PPID 1 means the Apache process is orphaned? > Is this behaviour normal? > Yes. This is not really an "Apache thing", more a general "Unix thing". Like any well-behaved daemon program, Apache detaches itself from its parent process (the one who started it, such as your shell process). This is so that whatever happens to the daemon later (a crash e.g.) would not influence the process that started it. If you do "ps -ef" on your system, you will see that many other processes do the same thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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