While enthusiastically writing my new program, I was having so much fun coding and reading www.perl.com articles that I didn't notice a slow, creeping horror that was gradually building up on my machine. Luckily I was reading about Apache and the log files when I remembered that someone here advised me to check the error logs as standard practice. As I paged through the file using the more command, I noticed the little 0% indicator never got bigger than 0% for some reason. Suddenly realizing my peril i held the spacebar down and reams of text scrolled by but that 0% never went up! A quick ls -l revealed that the error file had been slowly growing to as size of 2.2 gigabytes during Apache's first week of running! In my newbiness I did not realize that all those undeclared variables in a number crunching program were creating error messages from Hades that were eating up my little hard drive fast! Fortunately the problem was caught in time and easily fixed. It only took a few hours to delete the error file and clean up the code, and now the program runs much faster as well. Whew! I hope you got a chuckle out of that little adventure. Now to my questions.
My program accesses small text configuration files, allowing the user to change them with a CGI interface before writing them out and doing its compute thing. The problem is that each user needs to have their own set of configuration files so that the users don't all step on each other's configuration. I would like for each user to be able to return again and again and always find their configuration files still on the server, eagerly awaiting their chance to be accessed yet again. I imagine I need some sort of authentication system, but the prospect of writing one seems daunting. Are there any modules for doing that? I looked on CPAN and didn't find much of anything obvious. Should I make copies of the files with username.config.txt or something like that? What is the best way to do the copying in Perl? Do you have any thoughts or suggestions about how to set this up properly? I'm kind of uncertain about how to proceed. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
