php logname ???

[Ron Croonenberg]

Hello,

I have an apache server setup[ that runs under user=apache and group is
apache too.

Does someone know why the environment variables (in Php) are set in such
a way that logname seems to be root ?

I thought Php "inherited" the environment variables from apache.

thanks,

Ron

[B. Johannessen]

Re: php logname ???

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Ron Croonenberg wrote:[color=blue]
> I have an apache server setup[ that runs under user=apache and group is
> apache too.
>
> Does someone know why the environment variables (in Php) are set in such
> a way that logname seems to be root ?[/color]

Apache on unix is normally started as root (mostly to be able to bind
to ports < 1024, such as port 80). Apache then switches user and group
ids using setgid(2) and setuid(2). For this reason, Apaches initial
environment is normally inherited from init(8).

Altering this environment is probably easiest to do from the apache
startup script.


Bob

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