Hi Mat,

Apache refuses to start if I comment out the User and Group directives,
with log file error:

[Mon May  8 22:40:37 2000] [alert] (2)No such file or directory:
getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you pro
bably need to modify the User directive

Regards,
PHilip Payne
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Winged Wolf wrote:
> 
> In your configuration file, take out the lines that tell it what user to
> run as.  Most 'new' UNIX variants (including Linux) refuse to drop a core
> file after a setuid() unless exec() has been called since then.  (This is
> a feature, not a bug -- security concerns.)  Then, run httpd -X.  Unless
> things have drastically changed, it should let you.
> 
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> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Philip Payne wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I can try to get a core
> > dump to track down a segmentation fault????
> >
> > I've tried the various suggestions in the mod_ssl FAQ including:
> >  1) Setting CoreDumpDirectory to /tmp
> >  2) Starting Apache as a non-root user (Apache failed to start because
> > of privilege problems).
> >  3) Running the child servers as root (Apache refused to start for
> > security reasons).
> >  4) Starting Apache in single-process mode using httpd -X .
> > but the segmentation fault fails to produce a core dump.
> >
> > I'm using Apache/1.3.11 (Unix) PyApache/4.19 mod_ssl/2.5.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5
> > on Redhat Linux 6.1.
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