> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jim
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:16 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: [PLUG]apache 1.3.12
>
>
> I know that Apache needs to start as root, but there is a directive that
> allows it to change its UID/GID somewhere in the config file<s>.
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Redhat uses a very conventional init script startup so why not just use the
safeguards built in to the system...

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start|stop|restart|status

or (I'm not sure which version of redhat that this became acceptable)

service httpd start|stop|restart|status

this will make sure that configuration files are read from disk when
launched. Which if it was installed from rpm will certainly look to
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for it's configuration which is quite vast. If it
was installed from tarballs, I would be normal to find the configuration
file in /usr/local/apache/conf.

Craig