Re: The monthly.pl script??

Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:32:24 -0700


>does anyone have a working copy of monthly.pl????

Well, it must work, otherwise I wouldn't have included it.

>I have a sneaking suspicion that it has to be run as root to work on apache
>servers, which start up as root, then switch. The PID is by root anyway, so it
>has to be.

Yes, that is needed to restart the server (which itself is needed to get
Apache to re-open its logfiles).  You could separate that task into
a separate setuid executable, but that assumes some Unix and perl expertise.

....Roy