hmm, and as I just found out, the same applies for many other Apache:: mods (libapreq ...)
This looks like a major problem to me. Temporary workaround is to give read access to all users for ~root, but that makes me "a bit" nervous ... udo -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html