Re: Bug: apache/mod_svn intermittently creates transaction dirs with incorrect permissions or ownership such that the transaction breaks.

> 
> In my apache configuration (which is 1.3, but I imagine 2.x on UNIX is
> similar), there's a single parent process run as root, and a number of
> children running as 'nobody'. The children handle requests, while the
> parent binds to port 80 and manages the children.


I have verified that the children are running as user apache, the parent as 
root.. but I have not run something to check continuously:
<PRE>
root 11106 0.0 0.1 14420 6428 ? S 16:02 0:00 /usr/local/bin/httpd -k start
apache 11107 0.0 0.1 14828 7188 ? S 16:02 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/httpd -k 
start
apache 11108 0.0 0.1 14556 6564 ? S 16:02 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/httpd -k 
start
apache 11109 0.0 0.2 16372 8500 ? S 16:02 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/httpd -k 
start
apache 11110 0.0 0.1 14420 6492 ? S 16:02 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/httpd -k 
start
apache 11111 0.0 0.1 14420 6492 ? S 16:02 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/httpd -k 
start
apache 11113 0.0 0.1 14420 6496 ? S 16:02 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/httpd -k 
start
</PRE>

Could you add something to your monitoring script to capture the whole
> process tree every couple of seconds? It's always possible, I suppose,
> that one of the apache children is erroneously running as root.


I can try it. 

You said you were originally running RHEL3. I assume that this means we
> can discount any SELinux interaction?


After scouring the server myself, I asked a dedicated admin to look too. I 
don't think there's external processes or security configurations that are 
messing with this. 

It seems like either apache or mod_svn breaking each other.

Is it ever possible that the parent process (that is running as root) would 
handle some part of the request?? ...Or perhaps apache is mis-configured, 
although I've whittled the config down to a bare minimum and still got this 
error.

Regards,
> Malcolm
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