Bug 150153

Summary:	options for httpd is not working
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Lene Jensen <ljensen>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
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Description Lene Jensen 2005-03-02 23:30:29 UTC

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Description of problem:
When trying some of the options (I haven't tried all), there is no output:
httpd -l returns nothing. Same with httpd -t, httpd -S, httpd -h, httpd -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS, httpd -v, httpd -X, httpd -w and httpd -V.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
httpd-2.0.52-9.ent

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install httpd-2*
2. httpd -t
3. edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and insert an obvious error
4. run httpd -t again

  

Actual Results:  The command returns without any output.


Expected Results:  I would expect it say "Syntax OK" on number 2, and an error specific to the error created as output for number 4

Additional info:

The manpages explicitely explains the options, hence, they should be there. If they are not supposed to be there anymore, which would be a shame, then I would expect the manpages to change.

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2005-03-03 09:32:05 UTC

This is due to the SELinux targeted policy, which prevents httpd from having
access to the terminal by default; the output is just being lost.

To work around it, you can use:

# httpd -t | cat

but tools like apachectl and the init script already know to DTRT, so that:

# service httpd configtest
# apachectl configtest

will work as intended.