>Attached is a patch for mod_jk.c to more cleanly handle a bad
>path for the workers.properties file. Currently, this is
>handled in jk_init and if the call to map_read_properties
>fails, then we just call jk_error_exit which in turn calls
>exit(1). This causes some problems on NetWare because we
>don't go through all of the Apache cleanup code and so we
>can't restart Apache. The attached patch just places a stat
>call in jk_set_wroker_file to test for the workers.properties
>file. Since this is called during the configuration file
>parse, the error is reported earlier and allows Apache the
>shutdown cleanly.
>
>I've built and tested this for NetWare, Linux, and Windows.
Commited to Tomcat 3.3 branch for apache 1.3 and 2.0
Thanks