Apple did it again!

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

I'm not sure I understand what point you're trying to make.   If you  
put anything in /usr outside of /usr/local, since the very first  
release of MacOSX the rule has always been "you're living on borrowed  
time and at your own risk" since Apple, like every other OS vendor on  
the planet, reserves the right to update any files it shipped.  That  
is why MacPorts installs into /opt instead of /usr.

- Jordan

On May 29, 2008, at 4:53 PM, John Korchok wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> 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.
>>>>
>>>> John Korchok
>
>>> Are there other steps to making Personal Web Sharing run Apache2?   
>>> If
>>> so, could you please detail them for those of us who just can't  
>>> remember
>>> anything?
>>>
>>>
>>> In A Chord,
>>>
>>> Tom Condon
>
>> If you are comfortable with the command line, all you need to do is  
>> to
> link
>> to the installation of apache that you want to control from the  
>> preferance
> panes.
>>
>> 1. $cd /usr/sbin
>> 2. $mv apachectl apachectl1-3
>> 3. $ln -s /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl apachectl
>>
>> when you list the directory it should give you something like this:
>> ...
>> apachectl -> /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl
>> ...
>> and you should now be able to control macports apache2 from you  
>> preference
> pane.
>> Matt Hipley
>
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