From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 7:37:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F0737B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 07:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (ns1.tetronsoftware.com [65.67.249.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257CF43E31 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 07:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geneh@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from there (imn5e0vkv3eqqux0@freebsd.internal.tetronsoftware.com [10.0.0.200]) by ns1.tetronsoftware.com (8.12.4/8.11.2/check_local4.1) with SMTP id g66EbOPr000741 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:37:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from geneh@tetronsoftware.com) Message-Id: <200207061437.g66EbOPr000741@ns1.tetronsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Gene Harris (e-mail)" Organization: Tetron Software, LLC To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Odd log message starting httpd Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:37:24 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just upgraded apache13 to the current port. I am running 4.6-Stable. Whenever I attempt to start Apache from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh, I get the following error message in my messages log: httpd: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument In my httpd.conf file, I have user set to www and group set to www. User www Group www www exists in master.passwd and group. Here is what I get when I enter the command manually: su-2.05a# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start httpd: bad user name nobody /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started I thought I would parse the httpd.conf using the following command: su-2.05a# /usr/local/sbin/httpd -t httpd: bad user name nobody As you can see, I am not getting anywhere. I've searched the web, but all I can find are items that say the user 'nobody' does not exist in your password and group files. Many Thanks, -- Gene Tetron Software, LLC http://www.tetronsoftware.com FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Perl gcc/g++ Visual C++ COM/DCOM/COM+ ActiveX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message