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Re: [cobalt-users] httpd.admsrv Running while no-one logged into administrative interface



On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Sqlcoders.com Programming Dept wrote:

>  Hiya,
>  I was running top because I wanted to check how much memory a cgi file was
>  consuming, when I noticed that even though I'm positive no-one was using
> the
>  admin GUI (I checked with everyone who has access(there's only 4 people)) ,
>  there were 4 instances of httpd.admsrv running, a google search only shows
>  http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-September/051561.html
>  which says it's the admin interface running on port 81.
> 
>  Can anyone shed some light here?
>  Basically I need to know if this is how it should be, although I'd only
>  expect one instance for listening purposes, or if something's up,
>  Thanks in advance,
>  dw


Yes the admin server sits there with a few processes running waiting to 
answer requests.  It is a daemon, that is what they do.  Just like the 
normal httpd process has 5 or so processes waiting to answer port 80/443 
requests.

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