On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0500, will trillich uttered:
>
> i've been wondering about this, too --
>
> lots of linux-in-general documents call the apache server
> "httpd" instead of "apache". is this an old naming scheme?
> or does debian repackage it as "apache"? and instead of
> user/group "nobody" as is mentioned in many docs, on debian the
> user/group defaults to "www-data/www-data".
>
You're 100% correct. I think it's so people can tell at a glance _which_
HTTP server they're running. And www-data is just better. :-)
--
Steve
"I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
--Me
