Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 11:03:33 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: "Gene Harris (e-mail)" <geneh@tetronsoftware.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Odd log message starting httpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0207071100570.66386-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200207061437.g66EbOPr000741@ns1.tetronsoftware.com>
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Gene Harris (e-mail) wrote: > 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 > 'apachectl configtest' will give details on what is wrong... > -- > Gene > Tetron Software, LLC > http://www.tetronsoftware.com > FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Perl gcc/g++ > Visual C++ COM/DCOM/COM+ ActiveX > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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