That appears to dispose of user www-data once and for all. However, grep "Sep 14" /var/log/auth.log produced _NO_ instances of activity by but it was trying anyway. and I still cannot find where that is located in the multitude of logs. another blinky with a little different unreadable message appeared at the usual place. Upon restarting (just to see if the blinky screen persists).
Upon running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade immediately after the post just above, I was greeted with the admonition to run apt-get autoremove to get rid of apache2-data. The pam_unix sessions were too short to accomplish anything. Which program needs user www-data ? I checked /var/www/dwww and /var/www/html and there's only generic boilerplate there. > Sep 14 07:29:34 user-ThinkPad-T420 systemd-logind: Removed session c3. > Sep 14 07:29:28 user-ThinkPad-T420 su: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user www-data > Sep 14 07:29:28 user-ThinkPad-T420 systemd-logind: New session c3 of user www-data. > Sep 14 07:29:28 user-ThinkPad-T420 systemd-logind: Removed session c1. > Sep 14 07:29:28 user-ThinkPad-T420 su: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user www-data by (uid=0) > Sep 14 07:29:28 user-ThinkPad-T420 su: Successful su for www-data by root (2) Even though I've removed apache2, I'm still seeing user www-data activity: (1) The white text on black background blinks continue when they occur, it's just before the Plymouth screen. Why is apache2 running and should I care ?
They are also brief, in contrast to the verbose logs found in the many other places to which I've been directed. Those last two pairs are different from each other. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message Doing graceful restartĪH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. AH00489: Apache/2.4.7 (Trisquel_GNU/Linux) configured - resuming normal operations AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' to reach the last few groups of data (line feeds added between groups for clarity): Cat /var/log/apache2/error.log.1 |more gives