I understand that, the thing is that it _is_ deleting files owned
exclusively by root.
The only thing I can figure is that I happen to be a www client on the first
apache process. "ps aux":
root 204 0.0 0.1 2240 1288 ttyp0SJun16 0:00 -bash
root 15892 0.0 0.5 6920 4320 ?
You can start apache with "apachectl start" as root just fine,
you don't need to su to the apache user. And you must be
mis-understanding the permissions or something cause if you
do infact have apache running as a seperate user, there's no
way it can delete a file owned by root unless maybe the us