Synopsis: Server can not log to NFS mounted filesystem. State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: dgaudet State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 22 11:32:49 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: This is an operating system issue which apache cannot easily work around without compromising security. There are other reasons you shouldn't log to an NFS partition, including performance and reliability. NFS doesn't guarantee the same atomicity of O_APPEND opened files that is guaranteed by local filesystems. It's strongly urged that you put your ServerRoot on a local filesystem.
BTW if you really have to log via NFS and are using a piped program to do it then you should consider using CustomLog and opening exactly one logfile which includes the vhost name as the first field, which your pipe'd program could then split up the log on. This saves you descriptors in the httpd letting you run far more virtualhosts. You can add -DHAVE_SHMGET to your Configuration to at least eliminate the use of the scoreboard file. Thanks for using Apache! Dean
