>Number: 5258 >Category: mod_log-any >Synopsis: httpd quietly crashes if access_log is a bad symbolic link >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 5 04:10:00 PST 1999 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.X >Environment: BSDI BSD/OS 3.0
Nothing special here >Description: I spent several hours tracking this bug down. I have around 200 VirtualHosts. In one of them there is a line that reads: TransferLog /cruzio/vr/www.ecservers.com/access_log Suppose the file "/cruzio/vr/www.ecservers.com/access_log" is a symbolic link that points to /u/xxx125/logs/access_log. If the path that "/u/xxx125/logs/access_log" is a bad path, i.e. if the directory /u/xxx125 does not exist then httpd will silently crash. No error messages in error_log or stderr, stdout. httpd should detect this condition and report it to the user. This should not have taken hours to troubleshoot. >How-To-Repeat: See above >Fix: Do an lstat and check the results? >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, you need] [to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line and make sure the] [subject line starts with the report component and number, with ] [or without any 'Re:' prefixes (such as "general/1098:" or ] ["Re: general/1098:"). If the subject doesn't match this ] [pattern, your message will be misfiled and ignored. The ] ["apbugs" address is not added to the Cc line of messages from ] [the database automatically because of the potential for mail ] [loops. If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request from a ] [developer. Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
