Hi all,
Is there a reason why apachectl no longer asserts a successful
configtest before trying to restarting or gracefully-restarting a
running server? This was the behaviour back in the days of 1.3, and
avoided many a disaster where a running server was accidentally killed
by a broken config. Confusingly, the documentation still claims this
behaviour to be the case (grep
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/stopping.html for "syntax check").
Nowadays (as of 2.2.x, at least), the httpd still kills the existing
server on -k restart or graceful - even if its internal configtest fails.
It seems the original behaviour got killed off in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/support/apachectl.in?r1=94653&r2=95307
back in 2002. Is there any chance it can be reinstated? Someone filed
a bug back in April of this year for this at
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45103 - and I've just
posted a trivial patch against trunk there which provides the required
functionality.
thanks,
Matthew.
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