i don't use inetd to start apache, i start it from a script
which i can only run as root. if i chmod the script and try
being any other user, it won't start.
the documentation says "you will have to start apache as root
and then it will switch to Nobody", it kind of does, I get
one process running as root, and about five running as
Nobody, which I guess are the servers mentioned in
httpd.conf. If i shut down the process owned by root,
apache shuts down. apache doesn't mind how many of the
Nobody server processes are running.
Yeah But What's The Question?
Question: is this safe? everybody everywhere always
says never run apache as root, particularly if there
are cgi etc running.
Dominic Blythe
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I used to be an advocate of
Anything But Microsoft
until I discovered
Debian GNU/Linux.
