The following reply was made to PR config/928; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jesper Holck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: config/928: httpd cannot start, apparently because it is unable
to open the scoreboard file
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 14:11:41 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Jesper Holck wrote:
> drwxrwxr-x 2 httpd 1024 Jul 28 22:09 logs
>
> The httpd-daemon is running as user httpd, member of group www, of which
>
> root also is a member.
Don't do that. Anyone who can get the uid httpd or gid www can compromise
the user that starts Apache, which is normally root.
In http_main.c there are two sections with code like this:
scoreboard_fd = popenf(p, scoreboard_fname, O_CREAT|O_BINARY|O_RDWR, 0644);
if (scoreboard_fd == -1)
{
perror (scoreboard_fname);
fprintf (stderr, "Cannot open scoreboard file:\n");
exit (1);
}
Try removing the O_BINARY| from it, ie. leave it something like:
scoreboard_fd = popenf(p, scoreboard_fname, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
if (scoreboard_fd == -1)
{
perror (scoreboard_fname);
fprintf (stderr, "Cannot open scoreboard file:\n");
exit (1);
}
Recompile then try starting the server again.
