(fwd) scoreboard comments

[Rob Hartill <ha...@hyperreal.com>]

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> From webadm@info.cam.ac.uk  Sun Aug 20 02:43:27 1995
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> Subject: Re: Apache 0.8.10 is available
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> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:43:21 +0100 (BST)
> In-Reply-To: <19...@taz.hyperreal.com> from "Rob Hartill" at Aug 19, 95 06:28:00 pm
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> I seem to have got added to the list under two different addresses - please 
> retain the one from which I'm sending this, but delete jml4@cus.cam.ac.uk.
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> >    This is a quick note to let you know that the Apache HTTP server code
> > has been updated. The current version is 0.8.10, which is still in the
> > beta stage.
> 
> Fetched and compiled, ready for use (initially, at least) in our internal staff 
> test server. 
> 
> Since it's a bug I hit before and was documented as fixed, I tried starting it 
> chroot'd without a /tmp directory. It did indeed stop and complain (much better 
> than filling the system with processes!), but
> 
> (a) "open: No such file or directory" doesn't tell me (or anyone else) what
> file or directory couldn't be opened, and
> 
> (b) the follow-on message "Cannot open lcok file" probably ought at least 
> to spell "lock" correctly! 
> 
> [Pause to check whether it still wants /tmp, after past comments that the 
> process counter might be put elsewhere.]
> 
> Mmm... That was actually a different file, that needed to be in /usr/tmp, and 
> there's still a separate "scoreboard" file, in /tmp. Is there any reason for 
> that inconsistency in which directory is used? 
> 
> Anyway, my chroot environment now has /usr/tmp (as perceived by the chroot'd 
> process) and with /tmp symlinked to it, and it seems to work!
> 
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