I've tried creating a different user called www-data (group of same name, group populated with that user) and still received the same error message. I've set the web daemon's username to my username, (NIS not local) and it launched successfully. I believe the only difference is that my account may have admin rights.
Kermit Short System Administrator CCN-DC-1 D-Div ph: 7-6360 pg: 4-5165 em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:24 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start What about creating a unique user account and group for apache to run under. Then setting httpd.conf for apache to use that user and group? Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Kermit Short wrote: > To: users@httpd.apache.org From: Kermit Short > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache 2.0 on > RedHat EL 4 - httpd process will not start > > I'm having trouble getting the HTTPD process to kick off. > I receive an error message when trying to start the daemon > SYSV style (using the init.d startup script): httpd: bad > user name apache. > > Kermit Short > > System Administrator > > CCN-DC-1 D-Div k --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
