From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 10:37:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (claudel.noos.net [212.198.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A0337B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1033448 invoked by uid 0); 18 Oct 2001 17:37:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.83 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Oct 2001 17:37:23 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IHbMY98100; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:37:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110181737.f9IHbMY98100@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned In-Reply-To: <20011017234403.W22111-100000@db-cvad-1-tmp.yahoo.com> To: Doug Barton Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , ports@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: [snip] > The convention I've seen most often (and I also agree with for a > variety of reasons) for services that run on ports < 1024 is to use the > IANA service name and port. So, this really should have been user/group > name http. Using www isn't the end of the world, since www is a known > alias for http, but http is a better choice. I would like to suggest that > we change this to http before we go too much further down this road. > (Although frankly I think it's a bad idea.) FYI, HP-UX systems uses www and in an heterogeneous environment, www may be a better choice than http. don't remember Solaris and IRIX. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message