[mod-security-users] problems with apache2 + chroot + httpd.pid

[Raphael K. <di...@ko...>]

Hello,

First of all, thank you Ivan for this software.

I have a small problem setting up chroot for Apache2.0.52. 

The setup is as follows:

- apache2 is located at /usr/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/
- the jail is at /chroot/ust/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/logs

in httpd.conf:
- the pid location is PidFile /usr/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/logs/httpd.pid
- chroot is SecChrootDir /chroot

1) First case
If I use this configuration, Apache2 starts well and chroot is setup
[taken from error.log]

[Sun Dec 12 16:05:57 2004] [notice] mod_security: chroot checkpoint #1 (pid=18071 
ppid=18069)
[Sun Dec 12 16:05:57 2004] [notice] mod_security: chroot checkpoint #2 
(pid=18072ppid=18071)
[Sun Dec 12 16:05:57 2004] [notice] mod_security: chroot successful, path=/chroot
[Sun Dec 12 16:05:57 2004] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations

however, when I try to stop apache (bin/apachectl stop), I get the following error:
httpd (no pid file) not running

2) Second case
If I modify httpd.conf to point the pid file to /chroot/usr/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/logs/httpd.pid
I get the following error

[Sun Dec 12 16:38:08 2004] [notice] mod_security: chroot checkpoint #1 (pid=18110 
ppid=18108)
[Sun Dec 12 16:38:08 2004] [notice] mod_security: chroot checkpoint #2 (pid=18111 
ppid=18110)
[Sun Dec 12 16:38:08 2004] [notice] mod_security: chroot successful, path=/chroot
[Sun Dec 12 16:38:08 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not create 
/chroot/usr/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/logs/httpd.pid
[Sun Dec 12 16:38:08 2004] [error] httpd: could not log pid to file 
/chroot/usr/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/logs/httpd.pid

Can somebody please shed some light on the mistake I am making ? (is it a permission 
problem on the /chroot/usr/local/sbin/apache2.0.52/logs/ fodler ?)

Thank you very much in advance.