I have a homegrown framework which I use for my webapps (Perrin, it's like the others, but faster!! and lighter!! and will be on CPAN any day now... or something like that)
The framework does quite a lot of work setting up the applications that depend on it, and one of the things it does is autoconfigures the virtual hosts that the application requires. The setup needs to be called from a PerlConfigHandler, otherwise it is too late to set up the virtual hosts --> segfaults. It optionally outputs a fair bit of information about what it has set up, which goes to STDOUT. The problem is this: WHEN restart_count==1 - you see all the setup information, but it sets everything up even when you use 'apachectl stop' - the setup gets dumped when apache restarts, so it doesn't work anyway WHEN restart_count!=1 - setup happens only when it should, but you don't see any of the startup info. - if I print the startup info to STDERR instead of STDOUT, then you don't see anything on 'apachectl start', but you do on 'apachectl restart' - 'apachectl -S' gives no information about what virtual servers have been set up SO, ideally, I would like to do this: - apachectl start : set it up twice, as it should be, so that it checks that apachectl graceful will work. see the output once - apachectl restart : see the output once - apachectl stop : do not have it parse my setup Any ideas how I could proceed with this? Should I be catching a 'SIGTERM' and turning off setup in that situation? or is there just no way of detecting that this is a 'stop'? The only other thing I've though of is doing something like: apachectl -Dfast stop/start/restart And if -Dfast is set, then only do the setup when restart_count!=1 many thanks clint ________________________________________________________________________ Clinton Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.TravelJury.com - For travellers, By travellers
