Logging options & functionality question

I am using the beta 4 and want to direct the error logging to a file. I setup my php.ini as follows: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Error handling and logging ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; error_reporting is a bit-field. Add each number up to get desired error repor ting level ; 1 = Normal errors ; 2 = Normal warnings ; 4 = Parser errors ; 8 = Notices - warnings you can ignore, but sometimes imply a bug (e.g., using an uninitialized variable) error_reporting = 7 display_errors = Off ; Print out errors (as a part of the HTML script ) log_errors = On ; Log errors into a log file (server-spe cific log, stderr, or error_log (below)) track_errors = On ; Store the last error/warning message in $php_e rrormsg (boolean) ;error_prepend_string = "<font color=ff0000>" ; string to output before an err or message ;error_append_string = "</font>" ; string to output after an erro r message error_log = /usr/local/sbin/apache/php/php_errors ; log errors to specified file ;error_log = syslog ; log errors to syslog (Event Log on NT, not valid in Windows 95) warn_plus_overloading = Off ; warn if the + operator is used with strings ---------- The problem comes when the error_log file is securely owned and grouped the log file is not written. When we set the user to "nobody" then it gets written fine. We would rather not set our system files to be owned by "nobody" for security reasons. Is this a bug? Also, is there a way (undocumented?) to set php to use the regular Apache error log? Thanks, David -- David Munsey-Kano Dartmouth College (603) 646-1320 Murphy was a liar, not a lawyer!