debug and Mapserver crash

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Steve,

my experience is that nothing is debugged to stderr on a crash (except
premature end of script headers, mapserv.exe), but I was wondering if this
would be logical and if others have experienced this behaviour. My
experience is only on the Win32 platform though.

I do agree with you that levels would be a very welcome enhancement.

Best regards,
Bart

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:53:28 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM> wrote:

> Bart,
>
> I'm not sure what happens on a crash, but my experience with the DEBUG
> and LOG are as follows.
>
> 1) If LOG is turned on it only writes one line to the logfile that I did
> not find to be very useful for anything.
>
> 2) DEBUG output does NOT go to the LOG file it goes to STDERR which
> should put it into the apache/error_log. I opened a separate window and
> did a "tail -f /var/log/apache/error_log". FWIW, the only information
> written during DEBUG is layer timing stats. so if the files are flushed
> on a crash, you might get a clue about what layer it crashed on.
>
> While this is better than nothing, I would be nice if the DEBUG took a
> LEVEL which controlled the level of verbosity of the output as a bit
> mask or level like:
>
> DEBUG  1  - timing stats
> DEBUG  2  - subroutine
> DEBUG  4  - file/connection OPEN/CLOSE
> DEBUG  8  - SQL statements
> DEBUG 16  - etc
>
> But alas, it doesn't work that way.
>
> HTH,
>    -Steve W.
>
> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> does Mapserver write debug info for the functions that are successfully
>> called before a crash (Internal Server Error) occurs?
>>
>> Or when it crashes it won't write anything at all?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
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