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From: "David Salisbury" <salisbury@globe.gov>
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:16:44 -0600
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Subject: [users@httpd] ServerRoot/logs directory needed, no exceptions?


Hi Guys,

Wondering if anyone knows of a fix here, though it's not critical but it is kind of annoying.  Though I make no reference to a 
"ServerRoot"/logs directory in the configuration file, apparently Apache needs one to exist in order to run.  ErrorLog, TransferLog, 
PidFile, etc.. all those I give complete path names to a directory outside of ServerRoot, yet for some reason, Apache will not start 
unless there's a /logs directory underneath the ServerRoot, even though nothing seems to be written there.  If I remove the 
ServerRoot/logs directory, upon startup the ErrorLog ( written where I've told it to be ) records:

"[emerg] (2)No such file or directory: Couldn't create accept lock (/usr/local/webapp/logs/accept.lock.28901)"

If I take my ErrorLog directives and put them just into the VirtualHost blocks, then I get a different error sent to stdout, saying 
the serverroot/logs directory can not be found.

This is reminiscent of a below bug report.. but that was for 1.3 and I'm running 2.2.2.

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31086

I can leave the empty /log directory laying around I suppose.. put it's just not right. ;)

Thanks for any information,

-Dave


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