I just did my first passener deployment this week and I have to say
it's a fantastic new way to work with my ruby applications, I really
love it.  I have a few questions about my setup though.  First is in
regards to user switching - I've read the user guides and came across
this post - http://groups.google.com/group/phusion-passenger/browse_thread/thread...
- which answered my main issues but I still don't have everything
exact.  Here are my questions:

1. with the following apache configuration (below) and ps output why
does PassengerWatchdog run as root?  Why does PassengerLoggingAgent
run as nobody?  Is there anyway to get all processes running as the
same user?

2. i've followed the gem install/passenger-install-apache2-module
route.  there seem to be a few weird issues with my install (although
my app is working without issue):
  - issue 1 is that "passenger-status" seems to believe passenger is
not running - is "passenger-status" only useful for standalone
passenger deployments?
  - issue 2 - I can't seem to touch a restart.txt file to restart the
passenger processes no matter what I set PassengerRestartDir to.  any
known issues with that?

Thanks

Erick Johnson

following are some relevant configs/data for questions above

[root@dev2 io.vos]# gem list | grep passenger
passenger (3.0.12)

[root@dev2 io.vos]# cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/
passenger-3.0.12/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/
passenger-3.0.12
PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby
PassengerUserSwitching off
PassengerUser apache
PassengerGroup apache
PassengerDefaultUser apache
PassengerDefaultGroup apache

[root@dev2 io.vos]# ps auxw | grep -i passenger
root     19648  0.0  0.7 213916  1844 ?        Ssl  06:25   0:00
PassengerWatchdog
apache   19651  0.0  0.8 290356  2156 ?        Sl   06:25   0:00
PassengerHelperAgent
apache   19653  0.2  3.4 112584  8416 ?        Sl   06:25   0:00
Passenger spawn server
nobody   19656  0.0  1.5 148060  3772 ?        Sl   06:25   0:00
PassengerLoggingAgent

[root@dev2 io.vos]# passenger-status -v
----------- General information -----------
max      = 6
count    = 0
active   = 0
inactive = 0
Waiting on global queue: 0

----------- Application groups -----------
[root@dev2 io.vos]#