>Number: 963 >Category: mod_info >Synopsis: The data under the section 'Current Configuration' does not >show up on servers whose config files reside across NFS. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 4 00:40:01 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2.1 >Environment: BSD/OS 2.1 fully patched. Compiled using shlicc and gcc. Tried shared and static libraries. BSD/OS xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 2.1 BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 Kernel #4: Fri Jul 11 09:06:02 EST 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/src/sys/compile/WWW i386 >Description: The data under the section 'Current Configuration' does not show up on servers whose config files reside across NFS. Restarting the server either completely or via a HUP or USR1 signal fixes the problem for the short term. After a while the data 'disappears' again. Also cd'ing to the configuration directory where the config files reside fixes the problem. Seems that the NFS information becomes stale? Restarting the NFS processes on both client and server had no effect. Servers that read the config files from a local hard disk have not displayed this problem.
The error message from error_log is as follows: [Mon Aug 4 17:23:32 1997] mod_info: couldn't open config file /var/www/conf/srm.conf [Mon Aug 4 17:23:32 1997] mod_info: couldn't open config file /var/www/conf/access.conf ..where /var/www/conf points to a configuration directory on another server. >How-To-Repeat: Installing Apache on a BSD/OS 2.1 system that reads the config files from another server across NFS, should repeat the problem. The files are readable at first, but after time (approx 1 hour) the above error occurs. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
