Bug#298836: apachectl: remaining temporary directories with long status page
Package: apache
Version: 1.3.26-0woody6.cril0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi,
with a long status page, such as 15 kilobytes, the result of starting
/usr/sbin/apachectl status
is that spurious (empty) temporary directories remain in /tmp.
The problem is because apachectl status starts lynx -dump, which creates
and normally removes a temporary directory. However, when there is much
data sent by lynx to stdout to a pipe to apachectl, the current
apachectl implementation breaks the pipe in the middle, killing lynx.
Here is a work-around to ignore spurious lynx data instead of abruptly
closing the pipe:
--- /usr/sbin/apachectl.ORIG Thu Mar 10 10:29:35 2005
+++ /usr/sbin/apachectl Thu Mar 10 10:32:19 2005
@@ -136,7 +136,18 @@
fi
;;
status)
- $LYNX $STATUSURL | awk ' /process$/ { print; exit } { print } '
+ # Work-around for lynx killed because of broken pipe; doesn't
+ # remove the /tmp/...... (6 chars) directory.
+ $LYNX $STATUSURL | awk 'BEGIN { has_finished = 0; }
+ /process$/ { if (!has_finished) {
+ print;
+ has_finished = 1;
+ }
+ }
+ { if (!has_finished) {
+ print;
+ }
+ } '
;;
fullstatus)
$LYNX $STATUSURL
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux defian 2.4.21 #1 Tue Apr 20 15:30:51 MEST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH
Versions of packages apache depends on:
ii apache-common 1.3.26-0woody6.cril0 Support files for all Apache webse
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii libexpat1 1.95.2-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii logrotate 3.5.9-8 Log rotation utility
ii mime-support 3.18-1.3 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.6.1-8.8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl [perl5] 5.6.1-8.8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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