cannot get php through apache to write to my home dir on shared server

Hi, I have an account on shared server and am trying to write a logfile (a dump of an email which i use mail() to send) to a logfile in my home dir. This logfile will grow with all emails send by my app and will thus give me an archive of sorts. However, because php is executed through apache as user nobody it does not have permission to write to my linux home dir (fopen("log.file","a")) fails with permission denied). I dont want to open my home dir to the world to allow this operation but I also dont want to write my log to /var/tmp as user nobody. Does anyone know how I can get php to write as me to my home dir ? I suppose i could write a shell script and have my app call this but that seems a bit convoluted. Thanks in advance, -- frank ===== ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/