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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:37:55 -0500
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From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
Subject: Re: daedalus is running httpd-2.0.pre40
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At 08:33 PM 7/17/2002, Greg Ames wrote:
>...since Wednesday, 17-Jul-2002 18:49:31 PDT .  Things look fine now, but we
>took about a 3 1/2 minute site outage because of:
>
>[Wed Jul 17 18:47:20 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: could not
>open mime types config file /usr/local/apache/conf/mime.types.
>Configuration Failed
>
>That's the feechur where we no longer copy existing conf/ directories at make
>install time.  Remind me again:  what was wrong with simply not overlaying
>existing files?

Because folks may have *valuable* and *important* config changes that
shouldn't be wiped out?

That doesn't mean we couldn't overlay none the less... and save their
existing files in .bak.# files.

Bill