Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:12:34 -0500 From: "Gene Harris (e-mail)" <geneh@tetronsoftware.com> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Odd log message starting httpd Message-ID: <200207070412.g674CYPr047951@ns1.tetronsoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0207071100570.66386-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0207071100570.66386-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
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On Saturday 06 July 2002 08:03 pm, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Gene Harris (e-mail) wrote:
> > 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
>
> 'apachectl configtest' will give details on what is wrong...
Ummmm, httpd -t is the command that 'apachectl configtest' uses, which is why
my results are so odd.
Thanks,
--
Gene
Tetron Software, LLC
http://www.tetronsoftware.com
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