On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:58 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > 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? >
I would prefer to just put it into the log file like Dan did.. not everyone uses apachectl :)
