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hia, yesterday i migrated a website to debian potato. apache (from official deb binaries) excecuted with the new configuration, no probs. then i saw that both cocoon and jserv did not configure properly (but i did not expect anything else as i have not set them up). to get rid of the apt-get/dselect-problem related to these two packages (i could not install anymore packages) i tried to remove both packages. cocoon went fine, but jserv told that it did not find any user 'www-date'. as i have not seen any good use of www-data anyway (i run apache as wwwrun.www) i just removed the user 'www-data' and thus apt-get/dselect worked again. but then i recognized that apache did not run anymore. i tried to start apache with different flags, it always segfaulted after about a second. i tried to re-add user and groups 'www-data', adjusted shadow, gshadow etc. re-installed/-configured jserv several times, but apache still did not work. what can i do now? 'apt-get check' showed no failed dependencies, '/usr/sbin/apache -t' says the syntax of /etc/httpd.conf is ok. what could be wrong (the syntax and actually also the semantics of /etc/httpd.conf were right)? which packages should i reinstall/-configure? how dangerous is this if i already migrated the webcontent undr /var/www and the configuration under /etc/apache. what are the purposes of the user 'www-data' and the group 'www-data' and what are their proper settings in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow? did anybody have a similar experience after removing modules from apache? hope you can help me. rgds --dani -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Mettler http://www.icu.unizh.ch/~mettlerd All general statements are false. (The Ultimate Law)
