Subject: Re: Can't start apache-1.3.24-5 with cygwin-1.3.13-2 as a service underW2K
From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: "Dr. Volker Zell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:52:08 +0200

>>>>> "Elfyn" == Elfyn McBratney <[email-masked]> writes:

    Elfyn> Hi,
    Elfyn> This sounds like you have invalid an User directive in your httpd.conf...

    Elfyn> What is the User and or Group values?
    Elfyn> Does the user exist in /etc/passwd?
    Elfyn> 65535 is an awfully large uid is it correct? are you using domain or local
    Elfyn> user accounts?

Yes the problem was with my httpd.conf file. Both user und group were commented out.
After setting this variables apache started up again.
Strange it worked in cygwin-1.3.12-4.

Ciao
  Volker

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