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From: David Shaw
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00

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bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) wrote:
: In article <DIxL08.1Bo@news.zippo.com>,
: Carlos Chavez  <cursor@mail.teesa.com> wrote:
: | I really recommend NCSA HTTPD 1.4 for Linux.  I'v had this running for months
: | now without any trouble.  Some say Appache is better but for now I'm not even
: | considering a change.

: I have a warm feeling about the current 1.5 release, it is a bit
: faster, knows how to prefork in Linux without patches, and I got
: compilation errors out of Apache (possibly due to selection of
: options).

Be careful with 1.5 under Linux... there has been a few cases of people 
who ended up running it with root priviledges inadvertently.  There seems 
to be some sort of a problem before the child server gives up it's 
priviledges.

There's a whole set of threads on comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix about it.

David

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From: dshaw@hops.cs.jhu.edu (David Shaw)
Subject: Re: WWW Servers for linux
Date: 1995/12/07
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