I ran the ps -eax | grep httpd and it gave me this output: [root@bullet root]# ps -eax | grep httpd 9128 ? S 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9131 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9132 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9133 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9134 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9135 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9136 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9137 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 9138 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd TERM=xterm PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 _=/sbin/initlog 11322 pts/1 S 0:00 grep httpd HOSTNAME=bullet.espersunited.com PVM_RSH=/usr/bin/rsh TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSIZE=1000 SSH_CLIENT=192.168.1.3 1033 22 QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.1 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1 USER=root LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05 I don't quite understand what all that means, but the only USER= statement I saw in there was root. Is this correct? Is there anyway I can make this process run as user apache instead? > Message: 14 > Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:58:05 -0400 > From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Working as root while Apache is running; how much a risk? > (repost after subject line error) > To: Fedora List <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1089388685.6672.50.camel@lathe> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 11:42, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Can you clarify what "_RUN_ the web server" means? My current practice > > is this: The only way I work on my server PC is through ssh from a > > client computer because my server PC doesn't have a monitor hooked up to > > it. Anyway, I log in as root and the very first thing I do is "service > > httpd stop". I go about doing whatever task I have to do in that > > session and then I say, "service httpd start; exit". Are you saying > > that I don't have to have Apache stopped while I'm logged in as root, or > > are you saying I shouldn't stay logged in as root after I issue "service > > httpd start"? > > > > He means the user the processes for httpd run as. If you do a > > ps -eax | grep httpd > > on your system you will see a list of processes and the user they run > as. In this case they should be showing apache as the user. > > In some systems they use nobody as the user for these process. > > So you don't need to shutdown apache when you do maintenance as root.
