> Is is enough for us to simply #ifdef these changes in mod_log_config.c > or would you rather see a separate logging module? Except for the > addition of these two directives, everything else works for us.
I would personally like to see a separate logging module, because it makes it less likely that somebody else would want to put log rotation into mod_log_config. Ryan > > Brad > > Brad Nicholes > Senior Software Engineer > Novell, Inc., a leading provider of Net business solutions > http://www.novell.com > > >>> "Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wednesday, February 27, 2002 > 3:28:25 PM >>> > > > Like I mentioned before, on NetWare we can't use a piped log because > the > > NetWare OS doesn't support pipes. A cron job is also a problem > because > > we don't have that either. Since Apache created the log file, > writes > to > > the log file, formats the output and closes the log file, is it that > big > > of a leap to have it rotate the log file as well? > > It always has been in the past. The thing is that the web server > should > be serving pages, not mucking with log files. The other thing is that > rotation is going to need to be different on different platforms. How > does Windows handle it if you try to rotate a log file in the middle > of > writing to the log. There is definitely a race condition there, where > you are writing a message in one thread, and another thread moves the > file out of the way? > > I really think that if NetWare can't use the current mod_log_config > then > I think you need to write a NetWare specific logging module. > > Ryan >
