On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 06:38 PM, Carolyn wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:01:25AM -0700, Tom Mornini wrote: >> in httpd.conf: >> >> 1 <Perl> >> 2 $ErrorLog = >> "|/home/tmornini/Source/ewingz/bin/spread_from_stdin.pl >> ERROR"; >> 3 </Perl> >> >> 4 ErrorLog "|/home/tmornini/Source/ewingz/bin/spread_from_stdin.pl >> ERROR" >> >> Lines 1-3 and 4 should do the same thing. They don't. > > I was having this exact problem yesterday, with CustomLog and > LogFormat. I > think it's to do with quotes - try putting single quotes around your > $ErrorLog value, so apache will still see it as a quoted string.
I too am setting CustomLog, and it takes two or three values. So I set @CustomLog and everything is fine. I set LogFormat outside the <Perl> section and have no need to make it dynamic, so I can't comment here. I worked around this by removing the need for the extra argument for the program I wanted to pipe to, the 'ERROR' in the above example. I just wrapped spread_from_stdin.pl with a shell script, and everything is fine, but I really do suspect that this is a bug. I don't believe that single quotes -vs- double quotes would make a difference. Both things end up a single scalar, and I seriously doubt that Apache can tell the difference... -- -- Tom Mornini -- InfoMania Printing & Prepress
