At 11:21 PM 6/4/2002, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >At 10:58 AM 3/13/2002, you wrote: >>bnicholes 02/03/13 07:58:40 >> >> Modified: src/main http_main.c >> Log: >> Added the -e command line directive for NetWare to force all fatal >> configuration file errors to the logger screen rather than to the Apache >> screen. This allows Apache to shutdown cleanly and completely on an >> error condition without losing the error information that was written >> to the >> screen or requiring user interaction to close the Apache screen. > >Can we come up with some comprimize on flags so that 1.3 and 2.0 don't >start drifting? Unfortunately, both 2.0.36 and 1.3.24 introduced the two >different \ >meanings already. > >In terms of the new Netware -e meaning, it sure sounds like that feature aught >to be a default behavior, no? It really sounds sorta of similar to either >syslog >logging on Unix or Event logging on NT.
To be more specific, -e sounds very much like the converse of the -w option on windows, which causes the window to remain open if an error is encountered at startup [preventing the window from being closed before the message can be read at the console.]
