> On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@webweaving.org> > wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2015, at 15:55, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> For comment: What do people think about adding the capability that >> when httpd is started, it tries to access http://httpd.apache.org/doap.rdf >> to check its version number with the latest one referred to in that >> file and, if a newer one exists, it prints out a little message >> in the error.log (or stderr)… > > First reaction - Eek && Evil ! Breaks about every assumption I have about > well defined unix programmes. > > However if it where something like ‘httpd C / --configcheck’ or similarily > for apachectl then I could easily image that to be rather useful. >
That's what I was thinking (should have said it)... something like a config directive (CheckVersion) which defaults to Off
