Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:37:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, ports@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <200110181737.f9IHbMY98100@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011017234403.W22111-100000@db-cvad-1-tmp.yahoo.com>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: [snip] > The convention I've seen most often (and I also agree with for a > variety of reasons) for services that run on ports < 1024 is to use the > IANA service name and port. So, this really should have been user/group > name http. Using www isn't the end of the world, since www is a known > alias for http, but http is a better choice. I would like to suggest that > we change this to http before we go too much further down this road. > (Although frankly I think it's a bad idea.) FYI, HP-UX systems uses www and in an heterogeneous environment, www may be a better choice than http. don't remember Solaris and IRIX. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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