[ale] weird error in apache

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Fri Aug 4 06:50:37 EDT 2000


Apache is apparently attempting to spawn a shell and passing it invalid
parms.  If you execute:

/bin/sh -q   # -q is not a valid arg to sh

You will see the same message.  Now this is just a start on what the
problem is, but just above the "Usage:  sh..." message you listed, there
should be another line that is part of the error.  This should indicate
to you what it is complaining about.  In my example above (-q), I
receive the following error:

/bin/sh: -q: unrecognized option

Do you see something similar?

Ken N wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         Does anyone know what might cause this error? Never seen anything
> like it...
> 
> Usage:  sh [GNU long option] [option] ...
>         sh [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
> GNU long options:
>         --debug
>         --dump-strings
>         --help
>         --login
>         --noediting
>         --noprofile
>         --norc
>         --posix
>         --rcfile
>         --restricted
>         --verbose
>         --version
> 
> it's coming from the apache error log...
> 
> Thanks
> Ken
> 
> http://cleveland.lug.net/~rocket/
> 
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> dangerous only when submerged.
> 
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