Environment
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 8
Situation
Unloading the Apache Web Server in NetWare 6.5 SP8 (or previous versions if using Apache 2.0.61 or newer) produces a "press key to continue" prompt, which prevents automated shutdowns and restarts. This is due to a bug in rotlogs.nlm, the log rotation functionality
Resolution
This has been reported to engineering
Additional Information
Workaround
This disables the log rotation entirely. A single access_log and error_log file will be created and written to. The files grow without bounds. This may be unacceptable to some customers.
- Open sys:\apache2\httpd2.conf
- Find the ErrorLog line, comment it out with the # character and replace it with a new line as shown below:
#Removed pending future fix
#ErrorLog "|SYS:/APACHE2/bin/rotlogs.nlm sys:apache2/logs/error_log 5M"
ErrorLog "sys:/apache2/logs/error_log
3. Find the CustomLog line, comment it out with the # character and replace it with a new line as shown below:
#Removed pending future fix
#CustomLog "|sys:/apache2/bin/rotlogs.nlm sys:/apache2/logs/access_log 5M" common
CustomLog "sys:/apache2/logs/access_log" common
4. Save http2.conf
5. Restart Apache using ap2webdn and ap2webup
Another possible workaround would be to unload rotlogs.nlm before executing the ap2webdn.ncf