That's what I thought. Setting 'EMBPERL_DEBUG 0' should really turn off any
kind of logging including even trying to open the log file.
On 19-Jan-00 Christian Gilmore wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Using both 'EMBPERL_LOG /dev/null' and 'EMBPERL_DEBUG 0' will do the trick.
> Without redirecting EMBPERL_LOG, embperl will always try to open
> /tmp/embperl.log on its first use. I consider this a bug and a security
> hazard
> (writing anything blindly to /tmp can have potentially lethal side effects,
> eg: user foo puts in a symlink from /tmp/embperl.log to anything owned by the
> user running the server and that file gets embperl logs appended to it!).
>
> The log file is tied to at a few different spots within the code. None of
> these check the setting of EMBPERL_DEBUG before tying to the log. They should
> only tie to the log if the debug setting is not zero.
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>> Behalf Of Jason Bodnar
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:12 PM
>> To: mod_perl list
>> Subject: How do you turn logging off completely in Embperl?
>>
>>
>> How do you turn logging off completely in Embperl? Is it even
>> possible? I set
>> EMBPERL_DEBUG to 0 but it still tries to open a log file. I
>> didn't see anything
>> in EMBPERL_OPTIONS.
>>
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