Bug#458085: apache2.2-common: wrong permissions on /var/lock/apache2

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@icedsl.hu>]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:41:03AM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:

> It was a bit unfortunate that the line had to be introduced in a 
> stable point release and caused a behaviour change, but it was 
> necessary to fix a different bug.

You could at least test for the existence of /var/lock/apache2 and
create it only if it's missing. If /var/lock/apache2 already exists just
leave it alone and do not change its ownership.

> This is quite fragile (because of includes, etc.) and we don't want to 
> do that. But it would make sense to either add a comment in 
> apache.conf that /etc/init.d/apache2 needs to be changed as well, or 
> to set the user via an envvar that can be used in both apache2.conf 
> and the init script.

If the initscript does not unconditionally change the permissions on
/var/lock/apache2 then I'm fine with a comment in apache.conf.

OTOH it could be nice to have an "apachectl dump" command that dumps
the parsed apache configuration so scripting would be easier...

Gabor