On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:25:09AM +0200, J?r?me Loyet wrote:

> > Hi igor,
> >
> > in order to compile the patch version, I had to modify the patch
> > because it tried to patch auto/configure. The configure is in the root
> > directory, not in auto. Or I misunderstood something ?
> >
> > Then I didn't understand how the -p option works. I made the following test:
> > ./configure
> > /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /root/test/nginx
> >
> > but all file are relative to the default prefix (/usr/local/nginx)
> > except the root directive which is relative to /root/test/nginx in my
> > case.
>
> I don't know what I did but this behaviour is not the one I described earlier.
>
> The test is the following!
> .#/configure
> #make && make install
> # /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -V
> nginx version: nginx/0.7.52
> configure arguments:
>
> # (cd /tmp && /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx)
> [emerg]: could not open error log file: open() "logs/error.log" failed (2: )
>
> # (cd /path/where/logs/directory/exists && /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx)
> [emerg]: open() "conf/conf/nginx.conf" failed (2: )
>
> # (cd /tmp && strace -e open /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /root/test/nginx/)
> [emerg]: could not open error log file: open() "logs/error.log" failed (2: )
>
> It seems there is a bug with the default error_log and/or the prefix.

A new version, that fixes startup error log prefix:

http://sysoev.ru/tmp/patch.0.7.52.1.prefix

BTW, what OS do you use ? Recently I saw messages without text
description of error: "open() "logs/error.log" failed (2: )".
while it should be "(2: No such file or directory)".


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Igor Sysoev
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