On Thursday 25 July 2002 16.50, johannes m. richter wrote:
> >Sorry if this is covered somewhere else which I failed to find. But..., is
> > it normal that the first instance of apache2 is running as root?
>
> Yes because if it wasn't it would be unable to bind to port 80. (on usual
> Unix system; there's patches for some systems out there where you dont have
> to be root to bind to low port, but they aren't very common [yet?])
> j.

Aha!, of course. Thanks to "johannes m. richter" and "Werner Schalk" for the 
quick answer.

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