Synopsis: httpd appears to ignore command line flags -d dir and -f config State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 3 09:47:56 PDT 1998 State-Changed-Why: You need to be a bit more specific about exactly what you see.
Most directory settings in the config files will override the command line options after they are parsed, so are you sure you config files aren't the ones setting the paths? What do you mean by "overwritten" log file? Even if you had two servers writing to the same log, it shouldn't overwrite them but just result in the entries for both going to the same file.
