> I think that www-data is the user that runs the apache webserver for security. > But, one thread of apache is owned by root. > > What is the concept behind it? > Why root owns one thread? >
It is mostly likely running in prefork model. In the following link, look at section "How it works". http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/prefork.html The short answer to your question is to bind to privileged port 80. -- 0 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
