Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA13412; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from budgie.gui.com.au (root@budgie.gui.com.au [203.8.105.216]) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA13388 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mocking (mocking.gui.com.au [203.19.74.101]) by budgie.gui.com.au (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA27645 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:47:06 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970713124702.009af100@www.spidereye.com.au> X-Sender: garyw@www.spidereye.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:47:02 +1100 To: new-httpd@apache.org From: Gary Wisniewski Subject: Re: User Root Frontpage Fun In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org >I seem to recall Cliff and I coming up with a solution for front page... >but I forget what it was because I forget what the heck front page wants >root for. FrontPage 1.1 wants root so it can restart httpd whenever it makes changes to srm.conf on behalf of the FP user. FrontPage 1.2 extensions no longer requires this providing you hack up mod_alias.c to their specifications. See my posting "FrontPage mod_alias fiddling" for some details about how I worked-around all this. Gary ------------------------------ Gary Wisniewski Spider Eye Studios Pty. Ltd., Australia, +61 3 9415 6700 [Formerly GUI Online Productions]