On Mon, Mar 20, 2000, Rob Leachman wrote:
> > I just installed mod_ssl.
> > When I started the httpd server(./apachectl startssl),
> > there was error messages in error_log saying
> > "Child could not open SSLMutex lockfile ....logs/ssl_mutex.17472".
> >
> > Would you tell me how to fix it?
>
> Finally a chance to give something back. Not much, but something.
>
> This kind of thing gave me fits, also with the ssl_scache.dir and
> ssl_scache.pag files. I dove into the source, did some experiments, and
> came out with an answer!
>
> The program creates these files as root (or whomever starts the server) and
> then does a chown as the web User (configured as "nobody") to allow the
> children to get the job done.
>
> On my system (it is an old build) I cannot chown a file to user "nobody",
> just doesn't work. No error messages but it doesn't work. I found this out
> by doing it manually, logged in as root and attempted to chown the files in
> question, no dice.
>
> So I created another non-privileged user "webdaemon" and changed httpd.conf
> to run the web as this real (but not powerful) user... and voila my
> problems with the SSL lock files went away.
Hmmm... strange. But just to make sure: you nevertheless have a "nobody"
in your /etc/passwd, right? But it nevertheless doesn't allow you to
perform a "chown nobody" on some files if you are logged in as root?
Hmmmm... very strange. What strange OS is this?
Ralf S. Engelschall
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