>
>Hoping someone on the list will have some suggestions of other
>things to try... wondering if this is specific to Linux 2.0.35?
>
Seems this is a problem with the DBM which comes with Slackware 3.6.
From many moons ago:
At 3:01 PM +0200 4/6/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 05, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Full_Name: Cliff Woolley
> > Version: 2.2.4-2.2.7 at least
> > OS: linux 2.2.5 slackware 3.6
> > Submission from: apocalypse.uc.wlu.edu (137.113.241.101)
> >
> > I had the strangest problem when first configuring Apache+mod_ssl from a
> > fresh distribution copy of Apache -- only some of the images on a
>page would
> > load. Turns out that the session cache which I had configured to use DBM's
> > wasn't working and that was why some of the sub-requests would work and
> > others wouldn't.. it all depended on what child they connected to. there
> > would be no error message logged by the server; just a complaint by the
> > browser that the connection had been refused. finally I figured
>out that if
> > I just set this back to 'none' (the default), the whole thing works
> > magically. this seems as if it could be a weird quirk of the dbm
> > implementation under slackware 3.6 or something like that.
>
>Yeah, it was already discovered a few months ago by mod_ssl users that the
>(N)DBM library under Slackware 3.6 is horribly broken. Use APACI option
>--enable-rule=SSL_SDBM there, please.
>
> Ralf S. Engelschall
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.engelschall.com
I tried setting "SSLSessionCache none" but that did not seem to do the trick.
So I rebuilt everything again from fresh tarballs but used
"--enable-rule=SSL_SDBM" when configuring modssl, and now things seem
to be working!
Thanks a lot to Zivago who wrote directly:
At 11:51 PM -0700 5/21/99, Zivago 'Jaeman' Lee wrote:
>Rei,
>
>I believe the Slackware 3.6 dist has a buggy DBM library. I tried
>compiling the same thing on another box and I get the same thing. Try
>using this setting:
>
>SSLSessionCache None
>
>This seems to help. Or you can try recompiling Apache_SSL using the
>internal DBM library by setting this option during the 'configure' of
>mod_ssl:
>
>--enable-rule=SSL_SDBM
>
>Z
Thanks everyone!
Now, are there any drawbacks to using the SDBM option instead of NDBM?
-Rei
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