On 16 May 2002, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Who would be in favor of this, or parts thereof? I'm anxious to see a > consensus so that steps toward the goal can be filled in over time. > > 1) httpd can't be used directly on Unix because of environment > variable settings
Fine. > > or "shouldn't", take your pick; I suspect that we're better off if > httpd doesn't work anymore without some magic that people debugging > it would know (maybe AP_DEBUG allows it to work directly) httpd should definitely not become the wrapper script. Leave httpd as the binary and apachectl as the wrapper. > 2) httpd picks up the following function from apachectl: > > a) "apachectl start" -> "httpd -k start" > (it is different from plain "httpd") Fine. More consistent with Win32. > 3) apachectl becomes a simple wrapper script for httpd You could do both 2 and 3 I suppose, but ... nah. #2 is enough to remove the complexity from apachectl. --Cliff -------------------------------------------------------------- Cliff Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlottesville, VA
