Who is this 'tclhttpd' ?!

Hitboxx · 06-24-2007, 02:59 AM

Hi Guys

I installed Fedora 7 64bit yesterday and everything is working fine. But I don't know, somehow a user called 'tclhttpd' (userID 500) is created with its home in /var/www/tclhttpd. The directory contains two folders and two readme files.

Content of the readme file appears like

Quote:

This HTTPD is written in Tcl and Tk.
Written by Stephen Uhler and Brent Welch of Sun Microsystems Laboratory.
Brent is now at Panasas, Inc.
See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

Version: 3.5.1
Tue May 18 21:15:39 PDT 2004

STARKIT QUICK START

tclkit tclhttpd3.5.1.kit -port 80 -docRoot htmldir -library tcldir

The server loads all the tcl sources in the library. Try also
tclkit tclhttpd3.5.1.kit -help....

During the init process, it always fails to identify this user

Code:

Starting tclhttpd: tclhttpd: Unable to start user 'tclhttpd'       [FAILED]

What is this supposed to mean? Can I safely delete this user?

Help
Thanks

brianL · 06-24-2007, 04:53 AM

It's a web server.

Hitboxx · 06-24-2007, 06:14 AM

I thought so too, but can I delete it without any problems??

Hitboxx · 06-26-2007, 10:15 AM

Anybody?? No one knows the answer still? :-(

PTrenholme · 06-28-2007, 04:24 PM

Look, if you're not using the server, just remove it (system-config-services) from the services being started during boot.

If you do need the server, create the user.