On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:32:23AM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: > Hi there, > > I am running webmin and virtualmin on freebsd 7.0, I have found when > i add a number of domains using virtualmin and restart apachie i get the > following error. > > [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups: unable to set groups for User > www and Group 80... Apachie will not start.. > > > it happens when the 'apache' or 'httpd' user is a member of too many > groups. By default, Virtualmin adds the user Apache runs as to each > domain's group, which eventually triggers this problem.
See group(5):
In older implementations, a group cannot have more than 200 members. The
maximum line length of /etc/group is 1024 characters. Longer lines will
be skipped. This limitation disappeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
> Can any one advise me how to expand the number of groups allow on
> freebsd I think my default it is 16, I need to make it 50 to 100
The number 16 is from /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h. But my /etc/group
has 37 groups without problems.
In /usr/include/sys/_types.h and /usr/include/sys/stat.h gid_t is
defined as __uint32_t, a 32 bits unsigned integer.
Roland
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