On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:24 PM Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From my perspective it would be advantageous to have Apache write to > > the terminal by default (i.e. no hardcoded log file locations) and > > allow to override this behavior via the Apache configuration file. > > > Is there any reason why the default behavior is not that way yet? > > I think it's useful as opt-in, but I wouldn't want to see any > "defaults" changed (whether that's how the code behaves in the absence > of logging related directives, or how our default httpd.conf looks) > > One wrinkle I recall here is that the closing of stdout and stderr > happens in APR (apr_proc_detach?) and it requires a new APR release to > provide any alternate options there. > If you look at the -e argument to httpd binary, you'll see that we had to offer an alternative for those who didn't have access to / weren't satisfied with the Windows Event Log as an early/pre-ErrorLog error emits. Perhaps -e can be applied to Unix as well, and that some argument such as '-' can be understood to mean stderr?
