F11 httpd - non-root "service httpd status" reports wrong

[Jason Farrell]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM, G.Wolfe
Woodbury<ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us> wrote:
> F11+updates doing a "service httpd status" reports that the subsystem is
> locked but httpd dead.  Examination of ps output shows the httpd processes,
> and pidof reports them.  Prepending sudo to the service command does things
> right.
>
> Not sure why the sudo makes a difference, but it seems to me that it
> shouldn't require root privleges to simply inquire for the status of
> something.

That would be because the pidfile is located in /var/run/httpd vs
/var/run (as in rhel), and is not readable by nonroot:
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 2009-09-02 16:04 /var/run/httpd

Not really a bug since regular users don't need to be querying service
status, and httpd isn't singled out.

-- 
Jason