added info on web server / file permissions

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Note on MySQL Databases
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Note on Accesing Files
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In most environments the webserver has only access to the web directory.
If you want to read files e.g. from /var/log/ you have to grant
the necessary permisson to your webserver.
Of course, you always need to make sure that the user the web server
runs under also has the correct file permissions. Be careful when doing
this, you may create a security vulnerability by granting too much
to too many users.
phpLogCon does support using a MySQL database as syslog source.
PhpLogCon supports Adiscon's MonitorWare database schema. The schema
used by php-syslog-ng is also partly supported. That schema, however, is
somewhat inefficient in that it stores facility and severity codes as
textual values. We do not currently convert these values back to their
native format and consequently facility and severity can not be taken
from a php-syslog-ng database.
Note on MySQL Databases
--------------------------------
phpLogCon does support using a MySQL database as syslog source.
PhpLogCon supports Adiscon's MonitorWare database schema. The schema
used by php-syslog-ng is also partly supported. That schema, however, is
somewhat inefficient in that it stores facility and severity codes as
textual values. We do not currently convert these values back to their
native format and consequently facility and severity can not be taken
from a php-syslog-ng database.