scoreboard access from other processes

[John ORourke <jo...@o-rourke.org>]

Hi folks,

Is there a method of accessing the scoreboard of a running httpd from 
outside of that process?

I often find the times I want to see the output of mod_status are when 
the server is too busy for me to access it reliably so I figured a 
command line version would be useful.

It that's not possible, is there a way to reserve a child for a 
particular request, vhost, or source IP?

thanks
John

Re: scoreboard access from other processes

[Paul Querna <ch...@force-elite.com>]

John ORourke wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is there a method of accessing the scoreboard of a running httpd from 
> outside of that process?
> 
> I often find the times I want to see the output of mod_status are when 
> the server is too busy for me to access it reliably so I figured a 
> command line version would be useful.
> 
> It that's not possible, is there a way to reserve a child for a 
> particular request, vhost, or source IP?
> 
> thanks
> John

mod_backdoor does this:
http://people.apache.org/~trawick/mod_backdoor.c
http://people.apache.org/~trawick/mod_backdoor.txt

You could also write your own module that ran in the parent process, or 
something that spawned an extra thread in a child....

-Paul