Should server start if module cannot behave as configured?

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Poirier
mod_auth_digest cannot implement nonce-count checking or the md5-sess algorithm if the platform doesn't have shared memory. Right now, if the admin configures either of these options and the platform doesn't have shared memory, the module issues a warning and continues without the requested

Re: Should server start if module cannot behave as configured?

2009-09-09 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Dan Poirier poir...@pobox.com wrote: mod_auth_digest cannot implement nonce-count checking or the md5-sess algorithm if the platform doesn't have shared memory. Right now, if the admin configures either of these options and the platform doesn't have shared

RE: Should server start if module cannot behave as configured?

2009-09-09 Thread Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group
From: Jeff Trawick Sent: Mittwoch, 9. September 2009 16:58 To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: Should server start if module cannot behave as configured? On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Dan Poirier poir

Re: Should server start if module cannot behave as configured?

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Poirier
On 09/09/2009 10:57 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: 2) If it should be changed, what's the best way to do it? The change could break configurations that currently appear to work, although they're not really doing what the admin configured them to do. how many affected configurations are