Apple did it again!

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29May2008 19:53, John Korchok <jkorchok at hotmail.com> wrote:
| Once again, the latest security patch 2008-003 for Tiger broke our Apache 2
| installation by replacing apachectl. Earlier posts on this topic are
| repeated below for any new listers:
| 
| >>> Subject: Tiger software update replaces apachectl
| >>> I found out (the hard way) that the latest Apple Security 
| >>> Update 2008-002 for Tiger replaces the apachectl file in 
| >>> /usr/sbin. If, like me, you had copied the apachectl file 
| >>> from /opt/local/apache2/bin to /usr/sbin (this enables you to 
| >>> turn Apache on and off using the System 
| >>> Prefs/Sharing/Personal Web Sharing), you will find that the 
| >>> next time you restart Apache, things go haywire, like none of 
| >>> your PHP works any more.
| >>> It's because your system has reverted to the Apache 1.3 that 
| >>> comes with Tiger.

What, you mean Apple, the vendor, had the _gall_ to do stuff in the vendor
filesystem space? How rude!

Yes, I feel your pain - I have a similar issue on another platform with
another vendor. But it's not the vendor's fault, nor their problem.
You and I have hacked in the vendor's playground, and it's our problem
to make those hacks persist.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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