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Date: 9 Mar 2000 20:17:57 -0000
From: Klaus Mueller <k.mueller@intershop.de>
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Subject: Different configuration for Transferlog at NT service and command line execution
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>Number:         5849
>Category:       documentation
>Synopsis:       Piped logs under Win32 suffer some syntactic differences
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          analyzed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 09 12:20:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:  Wed Dec 13 08:57:11 PST 2000
>Originator:     k.mueller@intershop.de
>Release:        1.3.13-dev
>Organization:
>Environment:
WindowsNT 4 SP4
MSVC++6.0
Apache 1.3.13-dev
>Description:
I ported the cronolog programm for use with TransferLog option to WinNT.
I got two different behaviors as I tried to run apache from command line and as
NT service.
Command Line version of option:
TransferLog "|c:/apache/bin/convlog.exe c:/apache/logs/access%%Y%%m%%d.log"
NT service version of option:
TransferLog "|c:/apache/bin/convlog.exe c:/apache/logs/access%Y%m%d.log"
I do not know why the command line call of apache requires the double
percent symbols instead single ones.
>How-To-Repeat:
Request the cronolog exe from me or try to get it from the cronolog homepage.
>Fix:
Check the NT pipe call of external programs. No other suggestion known. Sorry.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
State-Changed-By: wrowe
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct  1 11:19:44 PDT 2000
State-Changed-Why:

Windows command shell will otherwise interpret the %env% 
as an environment variable, if double % symbols are not
used.  Also, we have additional issues about quoted filenames,
although I don't have my notes handy.  I'm tagging this
report to remind myself extra docs are required with the
piped log Win32 syntax.

By the way, will Apache as-a-service accept the double
percent signs?  Just curious without the time to try it out
right now.

Synopsis-Changed-From: Different configuration for Transferlog at NT service and command line execution
Synopsis-Changed-To: Piped logs under Win32 suffer some syntactic differences
Synopsis-Changed-By: wrowe
Synopsis-Changed-When: Sun Oct  1 11:19:44 PDT 2000
Severity-Changed-From-To: serious-non-critical
Severity-Changed-By: wrowe
Severity-Changed-When: Sun Oct  1 11:19:44 PDT 2000
Category-Changed-From-To: os-windows-documentation
Category-Changed-By: wrowe
Category-Changed-When: Sun Oct  1 11:19:44 PDT 2000

Comment-Added-By: wrowe
Comment-Added-When: Wed Dec 13 08:57:07 PST 2000
Comment-Added:

One additional footnote.  Quoting may behave oddly as well.
To pipe to a long filename, say foo<sp>bar.log, the command
must use the following quotes:

TransferLog "|""c:\program files\apache\bin\logger.exe" "c:\logs\foo bar.log"""

Note the extra set of double-quotes after the vertical bar, 
around the entire command.  Strange that it even is parsed
correctly, but that's the correct syntax on NT.


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