From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 15:07:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A7E16A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:07:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpc@xzuberant.com) Received: from n8a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com (n8a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com [66.94.237.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F1F443D4C for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:07:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpc@xzuberant.com) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lima; d=yahoogroups.com; b=Qbt5KR+2vHH3Tb10y2YyWbRsC6JL7BzGKT3QeMqTX7iUVG4rlk+nqZApNGTFoyCBzz9yFFiDjTcQM1sC2X+YJsh++K77krg2NX5H0R5JLw0tfiKoYZRwARAgZdrJgIz+; Received: from [66.218.69.1] by n8.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Nov 2005 15:07:25 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.77] by mailer1.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Nov 2005 15:07:25 -0000 Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:07:23 -0000 From: "John Campbell" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 64.140.24.17 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose Sender: notify@yahoogroups.com Subject: httpd: bad user name nobody (apache13-modssl port) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:07:26 -0000 I recently upgrade apache13-modssl to version 1.3.34 and now when I attempt to start the server, I get this message: httpd: bad user name nobody The user nobody exists and the server has been running fine for years. It's not chrooted. This happens regardless of what I put in httpd.conf. I googled and found lots of people with similar issues, but didn't find a solution. Any ideas? jpc