httpd lineage

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu Feb 8 09:07:03 EST 2007


Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:

> I used to be able to 'ps ax | grep apache' because of pathing - with
> Redhat's in /usr/sbin/httpd you can't do that anymore - maybe that's
> what you're recalling.

Perhaps.  At one time wasn't the user was also 'apache'?  Debian has
sadly moved to using 'www-data' as their "web-server username", which
I really hate.  Hmmm, it seems on the one RH boxes I have, the user
owning the /usr/sbin/httpd process is still apache.  2 points for RH
over Debian there :)

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Paul
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