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Subject: Re: Version check idea
From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:00:05 +0200
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On 21 Apr 2015, at 15:55, Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com> wrote:

> For comment: What do people think about adding the capability that
> when httpd is started, it tries to access =
http://httpd.apache.org/doap.rdf
> to check its version number with the latest one referred to in that
> file and, if a newer one exists, it prints out a little message
> in the error.log (or stderr)=E2=80=A6

First reaction - Eek && Evil ! Breaks about every assumption I have =
about well defined unix programmes.

However if it where something like =E2=80=98httpd C / --configcheck=E2=80=99=
 or similarily for apachectl then I could easily image that to be rather =
useful.

Dw.=