Re: [log4perl-devel] implementing a DBI appender, RFC

[Mike S. <msc...@ao...>]

er...@se... wrote:

>
> I'll toss in one... it'd be nice if at least the password (if not the 
> username) could be obtained from environment variables. What we do 
> around here is we have a reasonably secure script that sets certain 
> environment variables and give permission to use said script via sudo. 
> This lets the DBAs keep their passwords under control. 

That sounds like something I'd rather not encourage ... :)

But if you insist, you could probably use the soon-to-come perl-sub 
initialization of config variables:

     username = sub { $ENV{username} }

-- 
-- Mike

Mike Schilli
log...@pe...