Subject: Re: initgroups() failure
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.apache.user
Date: 2008-10-09 12:41:14 GMT (12 weeks, 5 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes ago)
Eric Covener said the following on 10/08/2008 10:43 PM: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Arvind Shenoy <ashenoy2985 <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I recently installed httpd-2.2.9 (with LDAP and SSL) on my Mac OS X 10.5.4 >> box. Everything went very smoothly except for one thing; Apache keeps >> shutting down due to the following initgroups failures: >> [Wed Sep 24 19:02:11 2008] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: initgroups: >> unable to set groups for User <user> and Group <gid> >> and >> [Wed Oct 08 15:00:48 2008] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups: unable >> to set groups for User <user> and Group <gid> > > trivia that may help, I've seen initgroups() crash when LDAP is used > on linux from nsswitch.conf and Apache is linked with some other LDAP. > > Does initgroups have anything interesting in the manual your system > for those errno values? > The man page for initgroups on Mac OS X says only: The initgroups() function returns -1 if it was not invoked by the superuser. But looking at the code, there are other possible causes. Arvind, have you checked the console for any messages that Mac OS X might have logged at the time of the problem? If directory services is having problems, it might log them there. (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe <at> httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe <at> httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help <at> httpd.apache.org