I occasionally have been checking my apache processes to see how much RAM they are using. Today I noticed that there was an apache process running under the username root. All of the other processes are using www-data (the default ubuntu). Any idea on how this could happen as I'm guessing this isn't normal.

Thanks

Drew

It is normal. The process running as root spawned all of the sub-processes running as www-data. It'll start and shutdown more of the processes as needed.

Running 'pstree -p' will show you that the root process is the one that started it all.

Thanks for the info.

Paranoia getting the best of me

For server security, paranoia is good. Remember the old joke: just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

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