On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 12:55 -0400, Jason Farrell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM, G.Wolfe > Woodbury<ggw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > F11+updates doing a "service httpd status" reports that the subsystem is > > locked but httpd dead. Examination of ps output shows the httpd processes, > > and pidof reports them. Prepending sudo to the service command does things > > right. > > > > Not sure why the sudo makes a difference, but it seems to me that it > > shouldn't require root privleges to simply inquire for the status of > > something. > > That would be because the pidfile is located in /var/run/httpd vs > /var/run (as in rhel), and is not readable by nonroot: > drwx------. 2 root root 4096 2009-09-02 16:04 /var/run/httpd > > Not really a bug since regular users don't need to be querying service > status, and httpd isn't singled out. I'd argue it _is_ a bug: if you don't have permission to know something, the error message should tell you that you don't have permission, rather than give you incorrect information. I blunder into this one all too regularly, alas :-) Cheers Dave -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
