annoyances

  • apache2: there seems to be no easy way to migrate from apache’s httpd v.1 to version 2. I have tried a couple of times now and failed. The config file isn’t read properly and little things like SSI don’t work, cgi-bin isn’t active, and logging goes wrong. It sounds like the wrong config file is being read, but try as I might, I can’t get the one I want to be used. The apachectl script, for all its virtures, could benefit from either explicitly defining the file to be used or a path/directory in which to find it, like say /usr/local/apache2/conf.
  • Those online docs for the automounter are worse than bad, they’re dangerous. I found the one machine on which I had made those changes all but unusable. The only command I could run without getting an error that the system was unable to fork a process was echo which being shell built-in didn’t need any resources. I rebooted and messages had a whole lot of messages from the NFS process used by amd, so it seems to have just taken over the system. Needless to say, I have de-activated amd at boot time until I figure out if it’s worth documenting and then doing so.