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Date: 18 Apr 2001 20:39:58 -0000
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
Reply-To: peter@dataloss.nl
To: submit@bugz.apache.org
Subject: Lack of option to make httpd not detach.
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>Number:         7586
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       Lack of option to make httpd not detach.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 18 13:40:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 29 21:03:24 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 29 21:03:24 PDT 2001
>Originator:     peter@dataloss.nl
>Release:        1.3.14
>Organization:
>Environment:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD useful.dataloss.nl 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Dec 15 22:51:43 CET 2000     root@useful.dataloss.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/USEFUL  i386
$ pkg_info | grep apa
apache+mod_ssl-1.3.14+2.7.1_1 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS functionality
>Description:
Apache httpd always detaches itself to become a background process. The only way 
around this seems to be the -X option, which is not really any useful in
production use. Running apache from inetd or the like is not desirable for
performance reasons.

This makes it impossible to run Apache from init, or any serious process
supervising tools (like http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html)
>How-To-Repeat:
useful# httpd &
[1] 75386
useful# jobs
[1]    Done                          httpd
useful# jobs

The actual process the shell spawned is gone.
>Fix:
Introduce an option to make apache not background. (options to do access or
errorlogging on stdout would be appreciated too, btw).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: slive
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 29 21:03:24 PDT 2001
State-Changed-Why:

This feature is available in Apache 2.0 (command line
option -D NO_DETACH).  Major new features are not
being added to Apache 1.3 at this point.

Thanks for using Apache!

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