Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 29322 invoked by uid 6000); 29 Jun 1998 20:20:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 29315 invoked from network); 29 Jun 1998 20:20:51 -0000 Received: from epic15.stanford.edu (171.64.15.48) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 29 Jun 1998 20:20:51 -0000 Received: (from akosut@localhost) by epic15.Stanford.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.4) id NAA03144; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:20:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexei Kosut To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: Question about ScriptLog and CGI output to stderr... In-Reply-To: <5040300017725265000002L052*@MHS> Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, W G Stoddard wrote: > I've been looking at PRs 2408 and 2429 and have a few questions about CGI error > logging and the ScriptLog directive. I haven't actually used ScriptLog recently, but I wrote it, so I'll try and answer. Someone who has more experience with what it actually does might correct anything I say. > Information (written to stdout or stderr) is recorded in the ScriptLog only > when the script exists with error status, otherwise this information is > discarded... True? Yes. > Should this same information also be written to the errorlog file? Not if ScriptLog is defined, no. > What should happen to information written to stderr when ScriptLog is > not defined? It goes into the error log (whether or not there has been an error) > Is it acceptable to allow unformatted CGI error data to be written to > the Apache error log? Yes. -- Alexei Kosut Stanford University, Class of 2001 * Apache *