From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820 apache-1.3.22-6 The "httpd" processes are launched with many -D options. Can't you arrange for that stuff to come from config files instead of being on the command line? The current situation is annoying, because when I do this: ps auxww | grep X I get three pages of hits, because so many words (and every capital letter!) are present on the httpd command lines. Not to mention that the command lines are each ~600 characters (~8 screen lines) long. (I don't know if this is a Red Hat issue or an Apache issue, but I can't find any bug reporting mechanism on apache.org, so I'm reporting it here. Please pass it along if you deny responsibility.)
This is indeed a packaging issue rather than an Apache issue, and it is fixed in the Apache 2.0 packages included in recent Red Hat Linux beta releases, where Apache is executed simply as /usr/sbin/httpd. The changes are rather fundamental to how we package Apache and Apache modules, so it's not simple to back-port this to the 1.3 packages.