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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:26:48 -0500
From:      "Gene Harris (e-mail)" <geneh@tetronsoftware.com>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd log message starting httpd
Message-ID:  <200207061526.g66FQmPr000867@ns1.tetronsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020706100622.0120f8c8@mail.sage-one.net>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20020706100622.0120f8c8@mail.sage-one.net>

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On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:06 am, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> 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....????

I have a separate user:group owner for the document root.  The only thing 
that has changed is that FreeBSD moved from the user:group apache:apache to 
www:www, which I changed in my httpd.conf file.  I've marked the directories 
as world readable.

>
> Best regards,
> Jack L. Stone,
> Administrator
>
> SageOne Net
> http://www.sage-one.net
> jackstone@sage-one.net

-- 
Gene
            Tetron Software, LLC
        http://www.tetronsoftware.com
FreeBSD  Apache  PostgreSQL  Perl gcc/g++
   Visual C++ COM/DCOM/COM+ ActiveX

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