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.
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