Hello all! (Please let know if Im re-inventing the wheel here ...) Im the beginning stages of a PERL script to parse incoming requests by the first directory name (for tracking individual website stats). (ie: 0.0.0.0 - - [28/Apr/2008:15:31:36 -0400] "GET /stats/blah/blah HTTP/1.0" 200 13127 would log to a file called "stats" while 0.0.0.0 - - [28/Apr/2008:15:31:36 -0400] "GET /photo/blah/blah HTTP/1.0" 200 15093 would log to a file called "photo" etc) In the virtual host I have the pipe set up: CustomLog "|/usr/local/apache/bin/LogIndividualWebsites.pl" common The PERL program executes without failure from the commandline (and writes my input followed by ^D), but does not write anything when invoked (as root) from the pipe. Not looking for PERL help per se, but more for help on why the pipe is failing. Script is chmod 0700 root:root. Apache is error logging with debug, but there's nothing to related the PERL program in there. Thanks S.A. Birl ========== #!/usr/bin/perl -T # # c: 2008-Apr-28 S.A. Birl # m: # # THIS PROGRAM IS EXECUTED BY ROOT # # For every incoming request to Apache, this program will analyze the # line and log it to the appropriate file for later parsing. # # This program assumes the STDIN is standard Apache "common" logging. # use strict; use warnings; my $DIRECTORY="/usr/local/apache/logs/websites"; # Where we will log my $Website; # Extracted from the input my $DebugLog="$DIRECTORY/___DebugLog___"; # debugging purposes my $WebsiteLog; # $DIRECTORY/$Website open(DEBUG, ">>$DebugLog") or die; #print "#"; print DEBUG <>; #EOF ========== Please do not CC me responses to my own posts. I'll read the responses on the list. Archives http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx