Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id IAA17564; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:59:30 -0700 Received: from millenium.texas.net by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA17559; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:59:28 -0700 Received: from localhost (mikedoug@localhost) by millenium.texas.net (TXNet/TXNet) with SMTP id KAA23959 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:59:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:59:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Douglass To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "srm.conf-dist has invalid Meta* lines" on Linux (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199606120136.UAA11183@sierra.zyzzyva.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com > On a similar note - would anyone mind if, similar to our virtualhost > documentroot quandry, our default for unrecognized config file directives > was a warning to stdout and not a process abort? > > Brian "Warning: srm.conf not found" As an experienced operator of web servers, I would know this is a problem; but an inexperienced person (which there are alot of) would shrug his shoulders, yell to his buddies that it's running... And he wouldn't realize until later that the srm.conf had some very important things in it that he had to have... I wouldn't suggest it. I know that when my web server doesn't start, there is a reason for it. Just looking out for the newbies... (we were all one once!) Michael Douglass Texas Networking, Inc. "To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels." - Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"