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httpd: bad group name { nobody | nogroup }

I am with :

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- Slackware Linux

- Kernel 2.4.22

- Apache 1.3.33

..and when I start my httpd ('/usr/sbin/apachectl start') I recieve that error:

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httpd: bad group name nobody

In /etc/apache/httpd.conf is written :

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user nobody

group nobody

I tryed with nogroup but It didn't worked..!?
Anyway the command line 'groupmod -g 99 nobody' returns :

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groupmod: group nobody does not exist

...What is the problem in the next case if I got next lines in next files :

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/etc/passwd : nobody:x:99:98:nobody:/:

/etc/passwd- : nobody:x:99:98:nobody:/:

/etc/shadow : nobody:*:9797:0:::::

/etc/shadow- : nobody:*:9797:0:::::

/etc/group : nobody::98:nobody

/etc/group- : nobody::98:nobody

I will be most happy guy at the whole worldz if someone tells me what's wrong with my groups!?

Have you tried adding a group nobody? Personally, I let apache run under its own user (apache) and group (httpg)

Yep!
But I made it work.. I just remove "Group" tag in httpd.conf.. :)
I leave only "User" tag equal to "nobody"..
By the way the problem is more general of my expections!
There are no group names at all on my PC..
Example :

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itni@home:/root# ls -al /

total 152

drwxr-xr-x  23 itni    0            4096 Apr 11 22:41 ./

drwxr-xr-x  23 itni    0            4096 Apr 11 22:41 ../

-rw-r--r--    1 itni    0              35 Apr  7 04:22 .directory

-rw-r--r--    1 itni    0              2 Feb 20 02:34 .windows-serial

drwxr-xr-x    3 itni    0            4096 Aug 13  2001 Type1/

drwxr-xr-x    3 itni    1            4096 Apr  7 03:42 bin/

drwxr-xr-x    2 itni    0            4096 Feb 20 02:07 boot/

drwxr-xr-x    2 itni    0            4096 Mar  5 17:30 c/

drwxr-xr-x  15 itni    0          40960 Apr 11 13:09 dev/

drwxr-xr-x  49 itni    0            4096 Apr 12 00:19 etc/

drwxr-xr-x    5 itni    0            4096 Feb 18 03:59 home/

drwxr-xr-x    2 itni    0            4096 Feb  1 17:23 i/

drwxr-xr-x    4 itni    0            4096 Jul 27  1999 lib/

drwx------    2 itni    0          16384 Feb  1 02:53 lost+found/

drwxr-xr-x    9 itni    0            4096 Apr  7 10:21 mnt/

drwxr-xr-x    2 itni    0            4096 Feb 20 14:57 msdownld.tmp/

drwxr-xr-x    5 itni    0            4096 Feb 12 11:37 opt/

dr-xr-xr-x  134 itni    0              0 Apr 11 13:08 proc/

drwx--x--x  47 itni    0            4096 Apr 11 13:10 root/

drwxr-xr-x    2 itni    1            4096 Feb 13 00:12 sbin/

drwxrwxrwt  25 itni    0          12288 Apr 12 00:50 tmp/

drwxr-xr-x    2 itni    0            4096 Feb  9  2000 ttfonts/

drwxr-xr-x  18 itni    0            4096 Sep 25  2003 usr/

drwxr-xr-x  15 itni    0            4096 Dec  3  2001 var/

drwxr-xr-x    8 201      201          4096 Mar  9  2004 vmware-distrib/

lrwxrwxrwx    1 itni    0              16 Apr  9 06:00 www -> /root/www/htdocs/

itni@home:/root#

..I thing that kind of problem is one very goot LinuxQuestion!
The problem is that.. not in httpd.conf..
Any ideas why`s that happens?

Is there someone who can help me about this?