Bug#342141: apache2: Apache2 weird forks (owned by root)
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:47:54PM +0200, Fotos Georgiadis wrote:
> Package: apache2
> Version: 2.0.54-5
>
> Well, in our system what happens in that the children also have root
> privileges despite the User www-data option. But what is more strange
> is that this doesn't happen all the time.
> Processes owned by root are not serving pages (nor that I would want
> the root user to serve pages...), and that means the capabilities of
> the server are reduced.
> That's all I can think of. Has anybody seen something similar?
I have seen this bug several times on a moderately-used production server
running sarge's apache2. The only peculiar thing about that installation
is that it runs a RewriteMap, but other than that, it's all pretty vanilla.
Here the problem could always be worked around simply by restarting apache.
> It look like a race condition problem.
(To me it looks like what the Jargon File would describe as a mandelbug. :)
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