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AIX - Sudo rule setup to start/stop apache

/usr/local/apache/ is the path of Apache. It is currently owned by root. Please help me setup a sudo rule to start and sotp apache for specific users.

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For example, I need to add about 3 users to be able to run this sudo rule, i.e. user1, user2, and user3, and then a seperate group called apacheapp. How would this look?

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Ok, I will test it. What was the percent sign before the groupname for?

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I can still stop and start apache with no issues using root. But, when I "su - user1", and try to run /usr/local/bin/apachectl start....I get the following error:

servername:/home/user1> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
servername:/home/user1>

woolmilkporc

1) The Percent sign indicates a Unix Group, instead of a userid.

2) How should the shell know about sudo? In my first comment I already wrote that your users must run:

sudo /usr/local/....

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Oops, that is my mistake...I forgot to use sudo.

woolmilkporc

Don't worry! I saw this same mistake being made a hundred times here at EE ...