On Thu, 16 May 2002, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ryan Bloom wrote: > > My own opinion is that we leave things exactly as they are today. If > > you are running the binary by hand, you are taking some responsibility > > for knowing what you are doing. That means having the environment > > variables setup correctly before you start. > > > > If you don't want that responsibility, use apachectl to run the > > server. Trying to solve this problem any other way just seems like we > > are asking for trouble. > > I think that is exactly what this proposal is saying. But at the same > time it is cleaning up apachectl and adding some useful functionality to > httpd. As I've said, the current apachectl is over-complicated and the > split between apachectl and httpd is confusing to some people. This > change would clear that up.
Would it make sense to move the httpd binary to .../libexec/httpd? That makes it clear that this is an internal binary which you shouldn't run directly, unless you're really smart. Then apachectl stays in .../sbin/. [Idea courtesy of mysql's mysqld.] Later, scott
