Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 5554 invoked by uid 6000); 5 Apr 1999 22:06:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 5542 invoked from network); 5 Apr 1999 22:06:38 -0000 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (204.107.140.52) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 5 Apr 1999 22:06:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 3096 invoked by uid 500); 5 Apr 1999 22:06:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Gaudet To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogRoot directive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Comment: Visit http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. 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 I consider those OS's broken though... besides they have a kludge called JOIN that does the job ;) Dean On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > The reason I was appending logs was 'coz I'd lost my mind temporarily, and > forgotten that the default httpd.conf ships with logs/ prepended to the > log filename. However, you're right -- on some OS, symlinks aren't really > an option, so if you want to relocate your logs to somewhere else (drive > space, performance, whatever), then you don't have much choice. Every > other web server that I've worked with has some kind of equivalent. > > --- > tani hosokawa > river styx internet > > > On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > I guess I need to ask... why? What's wrong with putting "logs/" in front > > of all the log filenames and getting it relative to serverroot... drop a > > symlink in the filesystem? > > > > Oh wait, are you on a half-baked operating system? > > > > Dean > > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > > > > > DESCRIPTION > > > ------------ > > > > > > this is a pretty simple little patch, but it's something that's bugged me > > > for over a year now. i've tested it pretty thoroughly, and i've patched > > > mod_log_config, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and http_log, so all the > > > logging should be fine. > > > > > > there's a new global variable (ap_log_root) that contains the log root > > > directory, and a function abstract (ap_log_root_relative()) that mimics > > > ap_server_root_relative(). ap_log_root is set to ap_server_root + "/logs" > > > if ap_log_root is empty when ServerRoot is processed. > > > > > > the patch is against apache 1.3.6. > > > > > > --- > > > tani hosokawa > > > river styx internet > > > > > > > > > >