Clarify that the ScriptLog is opened by the child processes so

permissions need to be set appropriately.  Perhaps wouldn't hurt
to put an error in the error_log if it can't be opened.


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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html b/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html
index 10c4cd57f6..c52c80f2bc 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_cgi.html
@@ -114,14 +114,19 @@ anything on standard output or standard error).
 <b>Status:</b> mod_cgi
 <p>
 
-The <tt>ScriptLog</tt> directive sets the CGI script error logfile. If
-no
-ScriptLog is given, no error log is created. If given, any CGI errors
-are
-logged
-into the filename given as argument. If this is a relative file or
-path it is
-taken relative to the server root.
+The <tt>ScriptLog</tt> directive sets the CGI script error logfile.
+If no ScriptLog is given, no error log is created. If given, any
+CGI errors are logged into the filename given as argument. If this
+is a relative file or path it is taken relative to the server root.
+
+<P>This log will be opened as the user the child processes run as,
+ie. the user specified in the main <A HREF="core.html#User">User</A>
+directive.  This means that either the directory the script log is
+in needs to be writable by that user or the file needs to be manually
+created and set to be writable by that user.  If you place the
+script log in your main logs directory, do <STRONG>NOT</STRONG>
+change the directory permissions to make it writable by the user
+the child processes run as.</P>
 
 <p>Note that script logging is meant to be a debugging feature when
 writing CGI scripts, and is not meant to be activated continuously on