Isn't that the whole cross platform point here? If another platform decided that it was better for them to have log rotation in Apache, isn't it better to share code rather than reinvent or duplicate the wheel? I don't have a problem with separating the code into another module, but I would rather share than duplicate.
Brad Brad Nicholes Senior Software Engineer Novell, Inc., a leading provider of Net business solutions http://www.novell.com >>> "Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:37:12 PM >>> > Is is enough for us to simply #ifdef these changes in mod_log_config.c > or would you rather see a separate logging module? Except for the > addition of these two directives, everything else works for us. I would personally like to see a separate logging module, because it makes it less likely that somebody else would want to put log rotation into mod_log_config. Ryan > > Brad > > Brad Nicholes > Senior Software Engineer > Novell, Inc., a leading provider of Net business solutions > http://www.novell.com > > >>> "Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wednesday, February 27, 2002 > 3:28:25 PM >>> > > > Like I mentioned before, on NetWare we can't use a piped log because > the > > NetWare OS doesn't support pipes. A cron job is also a problem > because > > we don't have that either. Since Apache created the log file, > writes > to > > the log file, formats the output and closes the log file, is it that > big > > of a leap to have it rotate the log file as well? > > It always has been in the past. The thing is that the web server > should > be serving pages, not mucking with log files. The other thing is that > rotation is going to need to be different on different platforms. How > does Windows handle it if you try to rotate a log file in the middle > of > writing to the log. There is definitely a race condition there, where > you are writing a message in one thread, and another thread moves the > file out of the way? > > I really think that if NetWare can't use the current mod_log_config > then > I think you need to write a NetWare specific logging module. > > Ryan >
