13 Feb
2009
13 Feb
'09
8:14 p.m.
On Friday 13 February 2009, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
This brings another idea, displaying parts of
different files that are
listed in configuration file of siremis. For example a tail over syslog
file. The drawback for these extensions is the limitation of having
siremis installed on same server or another communication way which
means providing login access ...
Hi Daniel,
seconding Alex reply, this is also something i'd not recommend. I don't think
that allowing the webserver account to access my logfiles is a good idea. If
i choose to also write accounting logs, it could even read them. This is
sensitive data, where a security breach would be not nice. And also i don't
think that forcing the user to install a webserver with PHP on their
production system is a good move.
There are also existing system management packages that have this
functionality, one well known is webmin, which provides a module for this:
http://doxfer.com/Webmin/SystemLogs
Cheers,
Henning