On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 01:45:14PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > On Friday, November 04, 2011 12:15 PM, "Alvaro Gonzalez" <agonz...@cern.ch> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have encountered from time to time the problem that someone (or an > > script) modified an authz file in such a way that it blocked the access > > completely to the repository: > > > > "Invalid authz configuration" > ... > > my question is, is there any way to have a better error report of the > > problem? I often have problems in some authz files which are very long, > > and it is not trivial to find the problematic group. > > > > Do you have any suggestion? > > > > Use the svnauthz-validate tool (probably packaged in the 'svn-tools' package > of your OS, or 'make svnauthz-validate install-tools' if you build from > source). > > Send patches against libsvn_repos/authz.c that add the section name, > key name, line number, etc to the error message.
The error messages in that file look sane. I suspect there is a problem with apache not logging the entire error message.
