Daniel Woods wrote:
> the 3.14 rpm from 7.2 installed on top of LM7.1 changed
> the httpd owner to a new user called 'apache' ! Frankly I would like
> to know about changes like this *before* I upgrade, not after as I
> scramble around to fix things.
Agree. And not lose my logfiles. Create them with ``touch'' rather than
including them in the RPM, and user chmod+chown to be sure.
> The standard user for this purpose has always been nobody or www.
> Could the install script not check if those are already being used,
> and such a user exists, and then leave the current setup alone ?
The use of ``nobody'' was an error (the whole purpose of the ``nobody'' user and
group was originally to own *no* files), and I've not seen ``www'' on any Linux
system, only a BSDi box, but think it's a good idea, although ``apache'' is fine
if less intuitive. I have seen one ``httpd'' user, maybe on a Corel system,
can't remember for sure right now.
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