Hi there, I've been using the httpd since the 1.x days and today after revisiting some of the logging format documentation for n-hundredth time, I noted the doc text of this long forgotten and unused feature in `mod_log_format` is strange: %l Remote logname (from identd, if supplied).
logname? logINname? Remote user login name? Anything but "LOGname"! It is about a user, a login, not a log(file). My eyes have always auto-corrected that to `logINname` to this day, so I couldn't believe them today :-) But a quick check showed that it is so for 2.4, 2.2, 2.0 and 1.3 (some archived site). Some trolling in the source showed that it has been defined in code as such as far back as 1.2.1 (ref: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/1.2.1/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.html#L115 ) I am sure that has been copied over and over in way too many places. On the other hand I haven't seen a running `identd` in the last decade or two... So I have some questions: * Do you consider this a bug? * Does it have merit being fixed? On all branches? * Do you know of any active use of identd or can this be deprecated (and thus removed from post-2.5)? Regards, Kalin. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
