On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 11:30:25AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > So, I guess you would download an upstream Apache source tarball, > > extract > > it, and copy the log_server_status script out of the extracted tarball > > and into /usr/local/bin. Or wherever you want it. > > Interesting. First time I've seen a debian package remove a file like that. > > It can also be downloaded here: > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/support/log_server_status.in?view=log > > Looks like the shebang line may be modified. It's not in a format I'm > familiar with.
You're looking at "log_server_status.in" which is meant to be processed by GNU autoconf to generate the actual log_server_status file. All of those @foo@ templates are placeholders that autoconf will replace with other values. (It's not just the shebang -- there are more.) So, I guess copying it out of the source tree might have been a naive suggestion. You'll at least have to run the ./configure script in a way that matches how the Debian package is built, and then probably build most, or all, of Apache itself, in order to get a working perl script. (Either that, or perform all of the substitutions by hand.)
