On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 11:16, Michael Sullivan wrote: > 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 try "ps -aux | grep httpd" instead The output should look like this root 2168 0.0 1.8 23356 9700 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2249 0.0 1.8 23356 9720 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2250 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2251 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2268 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2269 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2270 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2271 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2272 0.0 1.8 23356 9716 ? S 14:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd Notice that the first column is the name of the user running the process. (lines wrapped by my mailer) > 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. >
