On Wed, Jun 23, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full_Name: Francis J. Lacoste
> Version: 2.3.5
> OS: Linux 2.2.6ac1 (Custom RH6)
> Submission from: bourdieu.insu.com (206.167.33.254)
>
> When apache is compiled with EAPI support and use the MM library,
> it is now impossible to start httpd as a non root user because
> the path to the EAPI_MM_CORE_PATH is not runtime configurable. It
> is a compile time only option, and if the path specified at compile
> time is root writable only, no user can start an httpd process without
> recompiling.
Not quite correct. It's a path relative to the server root. So when you start
Apache under a user which hasn't access to the compiled-in server root you
have to start it with "httpd -d /other/serverroot/" and then the paths become
/other/serverroot/logs/mm.*". I would like when the path can be configured
with a directive, doubt me. But it cannot be done. Because the shared memory
pools have to be available _before_ directives are parsed (to allow modules to
store the directive information already into shared memory). That's why I
wasn't able and will not be able to implement a "SharedMemoryPath /path/to/mm"
directive. Sorry, it's a chicken and egg problem which cannot be solved better
IMHO than with "httpd -d".
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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