Problem Starting apache httpd using sudo

Craig Johnson_1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:16:52 GMT

I have a very strange issue. I can't start the (IBM IHS) apache/httpd on one RHEL 6.2 machine (VM running on HP hardware) IF I use sudo.

Now, I know you can't bind to ports < 1024 without root privs. So I configured sudo like I always do so allow users to run "[path]/bin/apachectl" via sudo. This works fine on two other supposedly identical machines, but here.

So, out of curiousity, I changed it to listen on port 8080. Now, this is truly odd:

[ajohnsce@a300s706 ~]$ /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/apachectl start

[ajohnsce@a300s706 ~]$ ps -ef | grep http

ajohnsce 21095 1 0 14:20 ? 00:00:00 /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/httpd -d /ihs/ihs8-80 -k start

ajohnsce 21096 21095 0 14:20 ? 00:00:00 /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/httpd -d /ihs/ihs8-80 -k start

ajohnsce 21097 21095 0 14:20 ? 00:00:00 /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/httpd -d /ihs/ihs8-80 -k start

ajohnsce 21098 21095 0 14:20 ? 00:00:00 /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/httpd -d /ihs/ihs8-80 -k start

ajohnsce 21129 21059 0 14:20 pts/0 00:00:00 grep http

[ajohnsce@a300s706 ~]$ /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/apachectl stop

[ajohnsce@a300s706 ~]$ ps -ef | grep http

ajohnsce 21139 21059 0 14:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep http

[ajohnsce@a300s706 ~]$ sudo /ihs/ihs8-80/bin/apachectl start

[ajohnsce@a300s706 ~]$ ps -ef | grep http

ajohnsce 21171 21059 0 14:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep http

Why would this NOT work with sudo but work fine without it?

I have doubled checked my sudo setup, it is identical to the other machines where this works (on either port). I even reinstalled the sudo rpm.

Help.

Re: Problem Starting apache httpd using sudo

Jimmy Vance — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:28:26 GMT

my first thought would be, possibly selinux rearing it ugly head.

topic Problem Starting apache httpd using sudo in Operating System - Linux

Problem Starting apache httpd using sudo

Re: Problem Starting apache httpd using sudo