> -----Original Message-----
> From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:wrowe@rowe-clan.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:54 AM
> To: new-httpd@apache.org
> Subject: RE: server config directory patch
>
>
> New feature, new side effects...
>
> What about a new rule? All files in a config directory must begin
> and end with an alpha or digit. This might take care of the vast
> majority of these problems, and allow operators to mv t.conf to
> _backup.conf, and intentionally disable a section of their config?
I was thinking about that as well - it would be nice to be able to disable
configs without moving the file to another directory (that doesn't happen to
be under your main server config directory)
as I said, I'm not a C programmer by any means, but I'm willing to work on
this if nobody minds offering me style tips from time to time :)
--Geoff
>
>
> From: Mark J Cox [mailto:mark@awe.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:02 AM
>
> > after a little prodding to come up with a more simple
> solution sans regex)
> > by some helpful folks, here's an alternative:
>
> If we're ignoring ".files" we might also want to avoid other common
> editor backup files like "files~" and "#files#" and probably
> a few others.
>
> Mark
>
> > > At least on Linux, vi creates .file.swp when file is
> edited, which then
> > > prevents the server from starting/restarting (since
> .file.swp is funky).
>
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