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
Hi Oden,
yes it is normal that the initial proces
of the apache is running as root because
only the root user is able to switch
to another user or bind the apache to a
special port etc.
Bye,
Werner.
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;
