Kevin M. Goess wrote:
> You're right, there are a bunch of different solutions to the problem,
> varying in "neatness" according to taste. Here are a couple
> possibilities:
>
> b) something like this should work:
>
> #change effective uid while we open the log files
> { local $> = getpwnam('nobody'); #or whoever owns them
> Log::Log4perl::init()
> }
Now that's the kind of 'neat' I like! I may have thought of that
eventually but so rarely play with active process permissions/users that
it would've taken me a long time, many thanks.
Of course, for added karma I'll replace 'nobody' with something that
fetches the configured apache user from the config tree :)
John
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