Dan Poirier wrote: > I'd like to log the server command line and server root at startup. > > The reason is: sometimes when debugging a problem I'm given some logs > and a directory full of various revisions of the server configuration > file, and can only guess which of the configuration files was actually > being used. > > Logging the path to the configuration file would be complicated, since > when it's opened, we don't know where the logs are going to go yet, and > we don't save the configuration file path for later use. > > But with the command line and the server root, it won't be hard to tell > which configuration file got used. > > I've put a first pass at implementing this at > http://people.apache.org/~poirier/log_command_line_at_startup.patch.txt > and welcome comments.
I do something similar in my local startup script; alongside httpd.pid, the httpd.last is written with the command invoked (as a shell activity). This allows a hard-restart with the precise args and flags the user passed via the startup script command. If you like, Jim or I could propose that change to apachectl; it wouldn't be in the error.log, but might solve half the battle?
