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Cc: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Subject: Re: Can't start apache-1.3.24-5 with cygwin-1.3.13-2 as a service
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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:52:08 +0200
In-Reply-To: <OE407B7fPt2Ztn45gZf00001b2c@hotmail.com> ("Elfyn McBratney"'s
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>>>>> "Elfyn" == Elfyn McBratney <emcb_exposure AT hotmail DOT com> 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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