HTTPD_SYNTAX_CHECK: suexec

[bolero]

I just noticed that I get lots of these on some ispconfig installations. This seems to be only informational. Is that correct? Is that a check for each virtual host or why do I get so many of it? I just grepped thru the current logfile and got nearly 1000 of them.

[falko]

Where do you get these? What's the full log entry?

[bolero]

ispconfig.log:
05.08.2008 - 12:33:23 => INFO - HTTPD_SYNTAX_CHECK: suexec
05.08.2008 - 12:33:23 => INFO - HTTPD_SYNTAX_CHECK: suexec
05.08.2008 - 12:33:23 => INFO - HTTPD_SYNTAX_CHECK: suexec
05.08.2008 - 12:33:23 => INFO - HTTPD_SYNTAX_CHECK: suexec
05.08.2008 - 12:33:23 => INFO - HTTPD_SYNTAX_CHECK: suexec

Just grepped again on one host, it's got 23450 of them now.
It seems it started right after installation, I just didn't notice. Btw, why is the compressed log tarred up from /home? Makes it much harder zu grep it. A normal gzip should do.

[falko]

INFO means that everything's ok. :)

[bolero]

I assumed so. Still, what is it? As I said there are thousands, ten thousands of it!

[falko]

I think it's the result of httpd -t. Can you run that command? What does it show?

[bolero]

No. I already checked that. It's the same as "service httpd configtest". It returns "Syntax OK" *once*. For your 1.3 apache as well. I do not know of any suexec test in apache. There's suexec.log for the main apache, but that's fine.
The stuff is in every ispconfig.log I look at. Just looked at my demo server where about 20 domains got added. It contains 399 lines of it. If we calculate that's roughly 20 restarts with 20 virtual hosts. Which really looks like one gets one line per virtual host per change of httpd config.

[till]

If we calculate that's roughly 20 restarts with 20 virtual hosts.

Apache is not restarted or reloaded for this. Just the content of the apache directives field is checked.

[bolero]

Right. I mean it's 20 additions of 20 domains and checks for each virtual host at that time. But I don't see why the answer from httpd should be "suexec".