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Bug #2225

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Silent failure

Added by Olaf-van-der-Spek over 14 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
core
Target version:
1.4.40
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Description

It seems Lighttpd returns 0, even when startup fails. It should not return 0 in that case.
Printing an error message to stderr would be nice too.

  1. /bin/false || echo fail
    fail
  2. /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf || echo fail #

/var/log/lighttpd:
2010-06-15 22:03:32: (log.c.166) server started
2010-06-15 22:03:32: (configfile-glue.c.162) ERROR: unexpected type for key: allow-x-send-file (string) "(enable|disable)"
2010-06-15 22:03:32: (server.c.931) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

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 #1

Updated by stbuehler over 14 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Wontfix
  • Target version deleted (1.4.28)

I think we discussed this more than once: as lighty forks before validating the semantic of the config it is too late for that.

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 #2

Updated by Olaf-van-der-Spek over 14 years ago

I don't remember the reason for forking so early. Why does it fork so early?

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 #3

Updated by gstrauss over 8 years ago

  • Category set to core
  • Status changed from Wontfix to Fixed
  • Target version set to 1.4.40

Fixed with https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/32
lighttpd parent process will exit non-zero if config parsing fails.

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