On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:43:20PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > I think that whatever logic we adopt for inheriting User and Group > directives, someone will get bitten by it not doing the right thing, as > they may not have their global httpd.conf set right.
I agree. > Suggestion #1: > > set APACHE_GROUP and APACHE_USER environment variables in your shell > startup script, so it'll affect any Apache-Test runs I like this idea. > Suggestion #2: > > Don't build/test as root. This is a bad practice. Build/test as a normal > user and only 'su'/'sudo' when running 'make install'. Yeah I agree with the sentiment and usu. do this when installing software manually, but how does one install via CPAN shell? It seems that interface was made to be run as root. Am I missing something that would allow me to set it up to build/test as normal user and install as root? The other idea I've had is to gather this information via the processes already in place as well as perhaps Suggestion #1 and then present this information to the user in an interactive format such as done by HTTP::ApacheCookie. This allows users to specify alternate values if the system guesses incorrectly. I'd be willing to implement these changes if someone on the list can point me to the module and subroutine where I should be making them. Would the best place for these questions be in the TEST script? That would get tedious though when doing testing during development. William -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com
