From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 12:34:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04463 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04442 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id MAA15695; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:34:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Arjan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Webserver problem. In-Reply-To: <030501bdc212$753661a0$98626dc2@lisboa.nedstat.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Arjan wrote: > Some time ago a problem started with my Apache 1.3 webserver on FreeBSD > 2.2.6. At regular times it started showing Internal Server Error-messages, > error_log showed 'Couldn't spawn child process: blah'. > > The advice was to take a look at the daemon-settings in /etc/login.conf. > > My webserver is running under the group www-data, therefore I took this > advice for group www-data. If you start apache as part of system boot, it uses login group daemon. This is different that the regular user/group Rather than changing settings explicitly I've started using tc like :tc=root: to increase the settings. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message