From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 8: 6:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2849737B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E2F43E3B for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g66F6O599910; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:06:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020706100622.0120f8c8@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 10:06:22 -0500 To: "Gene Harris (e-mail)" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Odd log message starting httpd In-Reply-To: <200207061437.g66EbOPr000741@ns1.tetronsoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:37 AM 7.6.2002 -0500, Gene Harris (e-mail) wrote: >I just upgraded apache13 to the current port. I am running 4.6-Stable. > >Whenever I attempt to start Apache from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh, I get >the following error message in my messages log: >httpd: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument > >In my httpd.conf file, I have user set to www and group set to www. >User www >Group www > >www exists in master.passwd and group. Here is what I get when I enter the >command manually: >su-2.05a# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start >httpd: bad user name nobody >/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started > >I thought I would parse the httpd.conf using the following command: >su-2.05a# /usr/local/sbin/httpd -t >httpd: bad user name nobody > >As you can see, I am not getting anywhere. I've searched the web, but all I >can find are items that say the user 'nobody' does not exist in your password >and group files. > >Many Thanks, >-- >Gene Who do you have as owner:group for the document root....???? Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message