On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:52:18PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > (Doesn't the stderr from CGI scripts go to the web server's error log > > file anyway? I don't recall seeing a CGI script with its own log file > > before, but I suppose it could make sense if a lot of data is being > > logged.) > > yeah, stderr does, but i didn't write the package, i'm just trying to > debianize it, and that's how the author has written it. Sugarplum's logs were more important back when it had functionality the server admin might explicitly want to be notified about (DoS'ing the spider), and when events could occur that didn't match up well with the webserver's access log (e.g. randomized agent detection.) The functionality is still there mainly for non-admin users who don't have access to their own logs, and a hedge against webservers who don't provide useful logging. For a while at least, pre-iPlanet Netscape webservers would consider a CGI to have failed if it produced anything on stderr. None of this is particularly applicable to Debian's use. Upstreamily, -- Devin \ aqua(at)devin.com, 1024D/E9ABFCD2; http://www.devin.com Carraway \ IRC: Requiem GCS/CC/L s-:--- !a !tv C++++$ ULB+++$ O+@ P L+++
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