Comment 15 for bug 936216
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(Get the code!)
(In reply to comment #8)
> It seems pretty odd to do this. If you have some process which is randomly
> making your log directory unwritable outside of your control (or knowledge),
> who is to say that the log directory isn't going to become unwritable between
> when the testconfig hook runs, and startup completes?
>
The original use case for this was not someone making the log directory unwriteable, but someone (myself!) forgetting to add the directory referred to in the ErrorLog directive. I would then run configtest and since it said everything looked OK, thought I was good to go - but restarting the server would actually stop it dead.
At least printing out a warning gives you a flag that that needs to be fixed. It needn't actually try writing to the files - just checking that their directories exist would be OK for me...