On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:30 AM, J.Lance Wilkinson wrote: > In hindsight, the fact these messages were not prefixed by typical > Apache error log tokens like like [timestamp] [severity] [client] > should have been the tipoff here. That is true, log messages from the server (through ap_log_error() variants) have a well defined format. > MANAGE SSL CERTIFICATES. The output from backtick'd calls to the > OPENSSL utility was being output to syserr which of course PHP (using > mod_php5) was shunting to the Apache error log for lack of a better > place to put it. Apache redirects the stderr stream to its error log after it starts up. PHP et. al. have no influence over this. > Should be safe to proceed with the other applications of these new > certificates that are so critical today. > > Thanks for everybody's patience and indulgence -- clearly this should > never have been posted here, but I was desperate. Good to hear, happy to help out. That's why we have this list! S. -- Sander Temme sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx PGP FP: FC5A 6FC6 2E25 2DFD 8007 EE23 9BB8 63B0 F51B B88A View my availability: http://tungle.me/sctemme --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx