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From: "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.php
Subject: Re: Trouble with sending e-mail from simple php script
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:33:52 +0100
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Am 08.01.2012 16:02, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
> On 1/8/2012 9:12 AM, M. Strobel wrote:
>> Am 08.01.2012 10:20, schrieb C:
>>>
>>> Even if the message were rejected, I would still see something
>>> in that
>>> frame, but I get only a blank frame. Client machine rejecting the
>>> message should not even be noticed by this PHP script, or
>>> would it?
>>>
>> You have to learn how to find and read the log files. Your script
>> will not show errors if it dies.
>>
>> On Linux log files are only readable by root.
>>
>> /Str.
> 
> Log files are not always available, and PHP errors are often not
> written to logs (depending on the configuration - the default is
> to NOT write them).
> 
> Also, if the log files exist, they may easily be set up to be
> read by others than root.
> 

Don't tell me, tell C.

And the standard on linux is that log files are only root
readable. I don't think it helps anybody if we start discussing
what could all be done with the log files.

Please do not start arguing with me on this level. I did Coherent
on a serial terminal at home before linux came up, and I was
working in an IBM computing center back then.

/Str.