The following reply was made to PR general/2031; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jon D. Marburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Buswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: general/2031: logs incorrectly handled Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:05:36 -0700 (PDT) On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jon D. Marburger wrote: > > Is NFS involved? > > Yes. The central nfs server contains a raid5 array which allows /home > to be nfs-mounted on w3.one.net, shell.one.net, and other user servers. > (httpd runs on w3.one.net, I was logged in on shell.one.net.) I do not know > which version of nfsd each machine is running as it has been awhile since > I administered them. This is the problem. NFS doesn't preserve unix filesystem semantics, especially regarding append files. You'll either need to log locally, or log via a network socket or something else to the server. You shouldn't be logging in user home directories anyhow, it's a security hazard... at least that's what I think you're doing. It's better to log into a central location on the webserver, and NFS export that. This is both secure and reliable. Users just can't rotate their logs... I mean sure you could code up something so they could, but we're not going to support it, it's far too much of a security problem. Dean
