Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 25513 invoked by uid 6000); 3 Feb 1998 03:52:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 25507 invoked from network); 3 Feb 1998 03:52:15 -0000 Received: from lacrosse.redhat.com (root@207.175.42.154) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 3 Feb 1998 03:52:15 -0000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by lacrosse.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA16345 for new-httpd@apache.org; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:49:39 -0500 Received: from localhost (gafton@localhost) by localhost.localnet (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA26410 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:46:31 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localnet: gafton owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:46:31 -0500 (EST) From: Cristian Gafton X-Sender: gafton@localhost.localnet To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: apache/linux modules In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Alexei Kosut wrote: > I don't quite understand this. RHL uses an rc.d setup, and ships with an > httpd.init script, last time I looked. Can't you just use "httpd > -f/wherever/you/have/httpd.conf" in that script? No, because we don't want to give people ideas about changing that line and then coming furious at us at upgrade time thet their startup script was changed to the default values, etc. Only today I have goyt three messages from different people asking me what is their root number (!!!), just because after they logged in the system promped them with a 'root#' string and they did not know their "root number" - even the registration number did not work !!! Things have to be simple and work out of the box with minimal fuss. Cristian -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristian Gafton -- gafton@redhat.com -- Red Hat Software, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.