Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51220
impossible to run apache with non-root permissions
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:37 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: It's impossible to run apache with non-root permissions, because it tries to write a semaphore in /var/run: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, "/var/run/httpd.mm.12420") failed Error: MM: mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Permission denied): OS: No such file or directory >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mandrake 8 seems to have it solved in its package: apache-common-1.3.19-3mdk RPM for i586 See their changelog: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Changed MM_CORE_PATH to /var/apache-mm/mm instead of /var/run/mm because only root can write to /var/run and we have to be able to run Apache as a non-root user! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log in with non root permissions 2.Try to launch apache 3. Actual Results: The apacha is not started because it tries to access some files or directories not permitted to a non root user Additional info:
I'd go ahead and suggest to make this pathname configurable in the httpd.conf file, like all other pathnames that default to /var/run. Meanwhile, here's a quick work-around: copy /usr/sbin/httpd elsewhere, then change occurrences of /var/run in it to say /tmp/run (make sure it retains the same length). Then, create /tmp/run as the user who runs httpd and you're done.
Applies to Red Hat 7.3 too, and is pretty damn annoying. What's the status of this?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37233 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.