Re: Small change to default log file names

[Brian Pane]

Aaron Bannert wrote:

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:33:36PM -0800, Ryan Bloom wrote:

Can we change the default log file names form _log to log?  I have
moved to Windows recently (work requires it), and on Windows, files must
have an extension in order to be able to associate the file with a
program  I think it would be useful to our users to change this in the
default config file


How about just calling it foo_logtxt on Windows, the same way
we have exe on the end of our support binaries? The only reason
I wouldn't want to change what we have now is for the sake of
the billions of places where it's hardcoded to error_log and
access_log in automated scripts This may or may not be a valid
concern


I agree: better to change it to *log just on Windows and leave
the original *_log for the other platforms, for compatibility
with external scripts

--Brian

Re: Small change to default log file names

[Pier Fumagalli]

Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can we change the default log file names form _log to .log?  I have
 moved to Windows recently (work requires it), and on Windows, files must
 have an extension in order to be able to associate the file with a
 program.  I think it would be useful to our users to change this in the
 default config file.

+1 :) That's the first thing I touch also on unix in the httpd.conf file
when I install a new one...

Pier

Re: Small change to default log file names

[dirkx]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote:

 Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Can we change the default log file names form _log to .log?  I have
  moved to Windows recently (work requires it), and on Windows, files must
  have an extension in order to be able to associate the file with a
  program.  I think it would be useful to our users to change this in the
  default config file.

 +1 :) That's the first thing I touch also on unix in the httpd.conf file
 when I install a new one...

+0 - but PLEASE - put a large note in the RELEASE notes - as this will
break many a script :-).

Dw

Re: Small change to default log file names

[Jim Jagielski]

Pier Fumagalli wrote:
 
 Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Can we change the default log file names form _log to .log?  I have
  moved to Windows recently (work requires it), and on Windows, files must
  have an extension in order to be able to associate the file with a
  program.  I think it would be useful to our users to change this in the
  default config file.
 
 +1 :) That's the first thing I touch also on unix in the httpd.conf file
 when I install a new one...
 

+1 as well, on both cases. Should warrant a nice big entry in CHANGES
though.

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Re: Small change to default log file names

[Aaron Bannert]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:33:36PM -0800, Ryan Bloom wrote:
 Can we change the default log file names form _log to log?  I have
 moved to Windows recently (work requires it), and on Windows, files must
 have an extension in order to be able to associate the file with a
 program  I think it would be useful to our users to change this in the
 default config file

How about just calling it foo_logtxt on Windows, the same way
we have exe on the end of our support binaries? The only reason
I wouldn't want to change what we have now is for the sake of
the billions of places where it's hardcoded to error_log and
access_log in automated scripts This may or may not be a valid
concern

-aaron