>Number: 3555
>Category: mod_log-any
>Synopsis: Logging To A File Freezes Apache
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 18 07:10:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.3
>Environment:
FreeBSD members.unfaithful.com 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct
7 20:27:40 PDT 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/OPTWWW i386
>Description:
As you all know, it is easy to setup a "CustomLog" to log to an application.
Eg.
CustomLog "| /usr/bin/myscript.pl" "%h" etc..
Now, all works well if this perl script is okay. However when the application
fails, apache tries to restart it. (ie. myscript.pl keeps popping up as a new
process all the time).
After some time, apache freezes completely and is unusable. The rest of the
system remains fine.
>How-To-Repeat:
Setup a customlog directive to a program (eg. a perl script) which does not
work properly and returns error.
>Fix:
Nope.
>Audit-Trail:
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