Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:23:49 +1000 (EST)
From: Steven Harris <steve@playgal.com>
To: marc@apache.org
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Subject: Re: mod_log-any/3555: Logging To A File Freezes Apache
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Sure,

If you have a perl script as such:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Do something bad
require 'doesnt-exist';

Then reference this perl script in a customlog line:  Eg.

CustomLog "| /usr/bin/myperl.pl" "%h"

Apache normally starts ONE copy of the perl script.  However because this perl
script bombs out, it keeps trying to restart the perl script (everytime it tries
to log a hit as defined in the CustomLog).  Eventually we had the maximum number
of apache processes running and apache stopped responding to any requests.

Steve


On 18 Dec 1998 marc@apache.org wrote:

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> Synopsis: Logging To A File Freezes Apache
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> State-Changed-By: marc
> State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 18 10:45:56 PST 1998
> State-Changed-Why:
> What do you mean by "does not work properly"?  Please give
> an example logging script that can be used to reproduce this.
> 
>