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Re: http-ssl



On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:43:37PM -0500, will trillich uttered:
> 
> i've been wondering about this, too --
> 
> lots of linux-in-general documents call the apache server
> "httpd" instead of "apache". is this an old naming scheme?
> or does debian repackage it as "apache"? and instead of
> user/group "nobody" as is mentioned in many docs, on debian the
> user/group defaults to "www-data/www-data".
> 
You're 100% correct. I think it's so people can tell at a glance _which_
HTTP server they're running. And www-data is just better. :-)

-- 
                                                    Steve
  "I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
                                                        --Me



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