Error messages in software have always sucked, programmers see to never
really think of end users when designating them in their coding, when they
are designated and not left to the OS to obfuscate. FAQ's and
documentation should include as much error code info as possible to help
guide these matters as endusers encounter them.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Hernan Laffitte wrote:
> After looking at the source code, I realized that the
> problem I described in my previous post is related to
> the FAQ entry titled:
>
> "Apache creates files in a directory declared by the internal
> EAPI_MM_CORE_PATH define. ..."
>
> The FAQ entry doesn't mention semaphores or the error
> message a badly-defined EAPI_MM_CORE_PATH can cause,
> so I missed it on my initial troubleshooting of this
> problem.
>
> I think it would be useful to add a couple of sentences to this
> entry, something like:
>
> If you don't have permissions to write to the directory
> pointed by EAPI_MM_CORE_PATH, httpd may fail on startup
> with an error message similar to this:
>
> Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, "/opt/apache/logs/httpd.mm.25669") failed
> Error: MM: mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Permission
> denied): OS: No such file or directory
>
> This could help people doing a textual search for the error
> message. Does this make sense?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hernan
>
>
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