[OT] Debian mailinglists [was: RE: Debian or Ubuntu?]

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue May 20 18:00:42 UTC 2008


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/5/20 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> Again, yes.  Apache is less of a problem than some servers, in that I can
>> hand edit the configs and test them before restarting Apache, but I'd be a
>> lot happier with a tool that didn't let me write invalid config files in
>> the first place.
> 
> It would not be difficult to write a program that parses httpd.conf
> and warns about an invalid file.

Errr, there is one.  It's called "httpd -t" and it's unusual among 
syntax-checking programs in that it is always in sync with the syntax of 
the version of the program you are going to run - since it is the same 
thing...

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   Les Mikesell
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