[olug] Apache will no longer run in Red Hat after a reboot

[Damian Harouff]

I hate to be "that guy", but: is he even using mod_nss? Red Hat tends to
enable a lot of things arbitrarily. I know that NSS is more "open", but
mod_ssl might get him back online sooner.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:11 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'll try 644. Every article I saw on this said it must be a permission
> issue access the *.db files in /etc/httpd/alias but the permissions appear
> to be set correctly.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>
> > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5818
> >
> > The fix seems to be:
> >
> > cd /etc/httpd
> > chmod -R +r alias
> >
> > I don't think that 640 is right; I think you're looking for 644.
> >
> >  I got a call from a friend whose business depends on an Apache web
> server,
> >> but he doesn't know much about Linux. He is running Red Hat inside of a
> >> Windows Hyper-V VM. He bounced the Windows box for patching, which in
> turn
> >> rebooted his VM. He doesn't remember the last time he installed updates
> in
> >> Red Hat, but he does it from time to time.
> >>
> >> /var/log/httpd/error_log is just full of this:
> >>
> >> [error] NSS_Initialize failed. Certificate database: /etc/httpd/alias.
> >> [error] SSL Library Error: -8038 SEC_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED
> >>
> >> I've never used NSS personally. I Googled for the error and literally
> >> every
> >> hit I found was a permissions issue, that the apache wasn't running
> under
> >> the right group or that group couldn't access the files under
> >> /etc/httpd/alias.
> >>
> >> The problem is that doesn't appear to the problem with my buddy. Every
> >> httpd process is running under apache:apache and all the *.db files in
> >> /etc/httpd/alias are 640 and owned by the apache group, exactly how they
> >> should be.
> >>
> >> My buddy's business is down until we can resolve this.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions from someone more familiar with Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS
> and
> >> NSS?
> >>
> >> -- T. J. Brumfield
> >> "I'm questioning my education
> >> Rewind and what does it show?
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> >> -- Pearl Jam, Education
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