Re: Best compression for mod_perl application?
--- Bill Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own personal experience with mod_deflate (in Apache/2.0.46) is that it tends to spike my server's load. My server (gametz.com) is dual http://lists.over.net/pipermail/mod_gzip/2003-June/007130.html seems to say that mod_gzip has its own implementation for compression whereas mod_deflate uses zlib. I am assuming the shared library is somehow at fault here ? Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: UTF-8 support
I did a search for UTF-8 and locale at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ In the past 2-3 months the only problem seems to be that regex doesnt seem to work properly on UTF-8 input [http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse2html/perl5-porters/2003-05/msg00183.html?68#mfs] and that RedHat 9.0 ships with a buggy maintenance snapshot of perl 5.8.x [http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-05/msg00352.html] I think it means we better wait a while before making large scale applications to manipulate UTF-8 data but I could possibly be wrong. Also ofcourse dont develop applications using RedHat 9.0's perl :). Mithun --- Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To second Perrin, 5.8.0's UTF8 support is not broken. From what I was following on the p5p, 5.8.0 had some minor issues, but 5.8.1 which will be released really soon now (my guess: July at OSCon) have them (all?) sorted out. You may want to browse p5p archives and rt.perl.org to see what UTF8 problems were if any and whether they were resolved. If you find something that would be of interest to other readers, please post a summary here. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Current stable platform for mod_perl application ?
I have a opportunity to upgrade and standardize a couple of mod_perl enabled servers to the most stable configuration as of now. Apache 1.3 and mod_perl was easy to choose since it is a production environment. What I am very much confused is to what should I chose for the distribution. For various reasons it is certainly going to be RedHat but I have a choice between the very well tested 7.3 but highly likely to become unsupported by RedHat soon. Or I could go for RedHat 9.0 and rollback perl to 5.6.1 - I dont like the idea of running a production server on a maintenance snapshots of perl especially a .0 release. If anyone has recently had the opportunity to make simillar decisions do share what made him/her decide on whatever platform was chosen. Also does the Native Posix Thread Library support in RedHat 9.0 have any added benifit for mod_perl/my applications ? Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: Current stable platform for mod_perl application ?
--- Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: I have a choice between the very well tested 7.3 but highly likely to become unsupported by RedHat soon. Or I could go for RedHat 9.0 Ohh no no one is using RedHat support it is just the fact that most of the administrators are used to RedHat and I am not going to be maintaining the servers in the long run therefore I wanted them to have something they know their way around. I want something which they can manage on their own, they can upgrade without breaking everything down - and ending up ruining my happiness :). I do a minimal install for the servers anyway other than kernel and perl they wont have much else to worry about. Ofcoure RedHat 7.3 has the notorious gcc 2.96 - no body has been able to figure out whether it is actually broken or not I guess :). Do you actually need or use RH support? I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with it, but by the time you've a few years of Linux experience under your belt it's unlikely you'll need much more than the odd security patch - and you'll be able to deal with that sort of thing easily, even if it means installing a new kernel. The problem with ease of maintenance is that I need to give something which will have patches coming out for it for atleast a year - with the way new versions are poping up with all the distros I guess it is a dream for the time being. Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
UTF-8 support [was : (Re: [mp2] make test fails with 1.99_10-dev sources on redhat)]
--- Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is that setting locale to UTF8 makes it try to open everything as a UTF8 document, but not everything is one. It causes problems for Java and Konsole too apparently. It could simply be that Perl's handlling of UTF8 is broken, but I didn't want UTF8 in the first place so putting LANG back to what it was before seems like a reasonable fix to me. If I understand correctly most XML parsers support UTF-8 primarily. If perl's UTF-8 support is broken in 5.8.0 doesnt that mean it will break any mod_perl application which is handling XML's or UTF-8 data ? What about Axkit etc ? Anyone facing problem handling UTF-8 data using 5.8.0 based mod_perl setup ? Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
Re: Redirects: relative vs absolute
--- Grant McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to get the absolute URI of the current request to use with Apache::URI-parse to translate a relative URI to absolute? From perldoc URI - $uri = URI#8722;new_abs( $str, $base_uri ) This constructs a new absolute URI object. The $str argument can denote a relative or absolute URI. If relative, then it will be absolutized using $base_uri as base. The $base_uri must be an abso#8208; lute URI. - Regards Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: libgtop gone?
Tried compilling libgtop on a server without X and got the following. The error message seems to be self explanatory. -- configure: error: *** GNOME was not found on this system. *** *** If you want to use LibGTop without GNOME, you need *** to give configure the --without-gnome parameter. [root@apex libgtop-1.1.5]# -- This is libgtop downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgtop/1.1/libgtop-1.1.5.tar.gz Mithun --- Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy was on HPUX, and he just wanted source to this one library. It used to be available separately. I guess it's not a simple thing to do at this point if you don't want gnome and aren't on Red Hat. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: libgtop gone?
--- Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.0/2.0.3/sources/libgtop-2.0.0.tar.gz I dont know how it might affect the users but the above URL seems to be for Gnome 2.0 (RedHat 8.0) users. ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgtop/1.1/libgtop-1.1.5.tar.gz seems to be the latest version in the 1.x series This could possibly affect people compiling on workstations with graphical interfaces. I would guess it is best to say dont downgrade libgtop if it is installed. Thanks to both of you for pointing out that it's on the Gnome FTP site. I'll send Doug a documentation patch to point to this location. Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: use http-equiv to refresh the page
--- Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be overzealous about this, but I dislike seeing HTTP-EQUIV meta tags used when actual HTTP headers are available to do the same thing. It's fine if there's a reason for it, but usually people do it because they don't realize they can just send a real header instead.. So what is the recommended way of doing wait pages ?? Sending a 302 wont definitely show the user anything other than all that text changing in the status bar. Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
Yahoo is moving to PHP ??
http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm If nothing else this should be atleast generate some thoughts ?? It does show the mod_perl logo so I assume the comments are applying to mod_perl and not perl/cgi. Mithun -- Cons Theres More Than One Way To Do It poor sandboxing, easy to screw up server wasnt designed as web scripting language __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??
--- Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm They also say they plan to continue using lots of perl in all the places they use it now: off-line processing, filling in the includes and dbm files that the server-side script assembles. Perl is not being removed. No it is not being removed but this could have been a very big thing for mod_perl. Can someone find out more details as to why PHP was preferred over mod_perl it cant be just on a whim. I might be biased but considering the fact that PHP and mod_perl were neck to neck the cons should have made up for any slipup in performance. Also how does one go about justifying the fact that Ioncube cache is doing a better cacheing than any mod_perl based solution ?? I am assuming when Yahoo did their research they optimized everything to the maximum possible they werent out to do a marketting propaganda now were they Mithun __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
Re: nice mod_perl statistics to share
--- Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why you think so. If the '/' url is handled by a mod_perl enable server, then mod_perl will show up in the headers, proxy server or not. Sure, there'll be some servers where you But do we consider a proxy implementation as two mod_perl installations or one ? I am sure other technologies would love to beat their chest as two installations. If you throw in mod_backhand the figures go haywire even more. The company I work for utilizes multiple webservers sitting behind a load balancer which in turn are talking to multiple application servers who in turn are talking to couple of interface servers talking to third party systems. If you hit our domain it would reflect just one webserver Mithun __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: '' in regex
--- Rizwan Majeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying this out : $SomeVar =~ // ; $SomeVar =~ /''/ ;$SomeVar =~ /\/ ;none of these works. Works for me in perl 5.6.1 [mithun@zorro mithun]$ perl -wT -e 'my $test = you \ me; print voila\n if $test =~ /\/;' voila Mithun __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
[OT] Perl compillation
Could someone tell me the right place to ask questions regarding problems faced during compillation of perl 5.6.1 on i686 using gcc 3.0 on a RedHat 7.2 installation. For the curious folks these are the steps I followed -- tar xzf stable.tar.gz cd perl-5.6.1/ rm -f config.sh Policy.sh sh Configure -de make -- everything works fine till now - it even says go ahead and run make test. but thats where the fun stuff happens. Make test fails 52 of the 205 tests and a sample of the error message is as follows. -- lib/syslfs...Can't load '../lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.o' for module Fcntl: ../lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.o: ELF file's phentsize not the expected size at ../lib/XSLoader.pm line 75. at ../lib/Fcntl.pm line 220 Compilation failed in require at lib/syslfs.t line 14. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at lib/syslfs.t line 15. FAILED at test 0 lib/syslog...Can't load '../lib/auto/Socket/Socket.o' for module Socket: ../lib/auto/Socket/Socket.o: ELF file's phentsize not the expected size at ../lib/XSLoader.pm line 75. -- A google search tells me something very fundamental has gone wrong in the installation as in the system is trying to load a file as a shared library when it isnt - although that doesnt really help me isolate or debug the problem. Ofcourse a search of the perl-beginner list archive didnt help. Regards Mithun
Re: Mistaken identity problem with cookie
Dzuy Nguyen wrote: I have been getting many reports from our users that they have been mistakenly identified as someone else. I have tried to login as that user and just can't re-create the problem and I can't be at their computer to diagnose it. One thing I'm pretty sure about is that they must have gotton someone else's cookie. Another Probably your ISP is using one of those buggy cisco cache server. I am unfortunate enuff to have faced this problem with one of the largest ISP in India which believes that if I dont send a expiry header it is static !! The only way around it is setting a $r-no_cache(1) for every HTML page. Even then it will take 2-3 days to see whether it worked or not. http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=%5BLIH%5D+VSNL%27s+transparent+proxylist=11286 http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7678747list=11286 Mithun
Re: mod_perl, mod_gzip, incredible suckage
Robin Berjon wrote: I got it to work once, but I confirm this was painful. I don't use it anymore though so I can't remember the magic that it took to get it to run. As an alternative (probably incomplete) solution, you might want to look inside one of the templating/publishing modules out there that support gzip output natively. I know AxKit does, and iirc TT does too (but I'm not sure). http://www.egurucool.com Works fine with mod_gzip as a DSO Dont even recall having to do anything fancy just followed the documentation. Mithun
Re: handling eval in ePerl
Perrin Harkins wrote:
local $SIG{'__DIE__'} = sub { $error .= $_[0]; };
That's going to kill your exception handling code. You need to change
that if you want to be able to use eval() in your code. Matt has an
explanation of this in the exceptions part of the mod_perl Guide.
Hmm,
I think just commenting it worked !!. I have tried the following which
have worked the way it should.
---
# Exception handling
eval {die blah blah blah;};
print got : $@;
---
die blah blah blah;
---
# Write to error log
use Apache::Log;
Apache-request-log-error(got : $@);
---
# Syntax error
eval {die blah blah blah;
print got : $@;
---
print STDERR blah blah blah is going to the browser but I am not
really worried about it too much unless it is something I should worry
about - anyone care to comment on that ?
Ofcourse I still dont understand why die was being trapped out there.
Thanks to Perrin and Matt for their suggestions anyway.
Mithun
Re: How to handle die
___cliff rayman___ wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this Majordomo-controlled mailing list, just send an E-mail Umm it didnt really answer my original query but I guess since no one has answered it - either I didnt present it correctly or no one has a answer to it. I probably wont jump into the I want a newbie mailing list fray for this though ;). Mithun
handling eval in ePerl
Perrin Harkins wrote:
Umm I didnt mean to offend anyone in my previous posting - I did say I
probably hadnt presented my situation properly.
First, ePerl has nothing to do with Embperl or Mason. It is a totally
Ofcourse you noticed I wrote ePerl/EmbPerl/Mason ?? I clubbed them
together since I assume among other things you can embed perl code in
HTML using either of them.
The Apache::ePerl code is very simple, and I suggest you read it at some
point. It attempts to eval() your code, and does the behavior you saw
if it fails (which is what happens when your script does a die()). I
don't think you can change that without changing the code, but that's
pretty easy to do.
My problem is that die works fine as such but it conks out if done
inside a eval.
--
%
die blah blah blah;
%
--
redirects me to the default error page.
--
%
eval {die blah blah blah;};
%
--
on the other hand says the following.
--
Apache::ePerl
Version 2.0214
ERROR:
Error on evaluating script from P-code
Contents of STDERR channel:
blah blah blah at //test.html line 2.
--
I am not sure why that might be considered acceptable response but it
really makes my code a lot more messier trying to circumvent that.
If I could have fixed Apache::ePerl I wouldnt be asking the question
here - I usually dont go around asking questions to show people how much
I know about anything. I am not asking to be spoonfed or something but
if there is something which can be done without changing the
Apache::ePerl code I would opt for that. It feels like being told to
change gcc's code if my C code is not working :) - yah both of them are
written in C .
Mithun
How to handle die
Hello, I am running ePerl on my Apache server and a little problem has been bugging me a lot. When I do a die blah blah blah inside a eval I get the following in my browser. It doesnt matter which browser I use or which version of apache I use or which version of Apache::ePerl I use. Apache::ePerl Version 2.0214 ERROR: Error on evaluating script from P-code Contents of STDERR channel: blah blah blah at //tmp/test.html line 2. logs/error_log says [Sat Jan 19 11:23:01 2002] [error] access to //tmp/test.html failed for xx.xx.xx.xx, reason: Apache::ePerl: Error on evaluating script from P-code I would like to know a couple of things in this context : 1. Is die supposed to be handled by ePerl/EmbPerl/Mason ... or did ePerl end up over ridding something. In that case I would rather have it restored to the default. 2. How do I implement a solution throughout the site without having to do goofy stuff in every HTML page or module. 3. Why would anyone do that in the first place ? Before anyone suggests it - no I cant move to EmbPerl or Mason or anything else. ePerl can be found as Apache::ePerl on cpan or http://www.engelschall.com/sw/eperl/ . I wouldnt know if Engelschall is on this list but if he is - feedback would be highly appreciated :). Also I wonder whether it has been abandoned or renamed since nothing has changed since 02-08-1998 (8th Feb ??). The latest version isnt on CPAN either. Mithun
Re: Multiple Sites
But but it does not work. But if I put in URL/directory and a forward slash/ eg. http://URL/directory/ then it shows the default.htm page. But I know my customers, and they will not put in the directory forward slash. How do I get around this issue? http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html quote This module provides for trailing slash redirects and serving directory index files. /quote quote A trailing slash redirect is issued when the server receives a request for a URL http://servername/foo/dirname where dirname is a directory. Directories require a trailing slash, so mod_dir issues a redirect to http://servername/foo/dirname/. /quote
Re: Multiple Sites
Medi Montaseri wrote: If you only have one IP and want to have many web sites (ie URLs) for your customers, then why don't you use VirtualHost. Then your customers can either have www.customer1.xyz.com www.customer2.xyz.com or www.customer1.com www.customer2.com The originator of this thread didnt exactly say he had control over his DNS.
Re: Deleting a cookie
Mohit Agarwal wrote: Never tried the negative value for expiration time, but setting it to a very small value, say 1s, works. I'm not sure, but setting the cookie value to null should also have the same effect. I believe setting the expiry date less than the current time should work. Mithun
Internal redirect and return value.
I have a TransHandler which does quite a few things - which under certain circumstance calls a function defined in another package. Now that function is supposed to do a internal redirect. What I am currently observing is that the internal redirect takes place perfectly but the the Handler then goes ahead and executes whatever code was there below the point where I branch off to do the internal_redirect. Ofcourse I fixed that problem by doing a return OK just after calling the function but I am not sure I understood the whole thing properly. By my interpretation if I have to do a internal redirect at any stage I would have to make sure my TransHandler does a return OK - so I either do the redirect in the handler routine itself or I make sure I propagate the return code all the way back to the handler. I would like to know whether I got it right or whether I got waylaid somewhere. Mithun
LaBrea
Something to keep Code Red probes busy ?? http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/
Nimda
If no one did the calculation before it amounts to a data transfer of approximately 250 MB a month considering the continuous 100Kbps of probe I am getting since yesterday evening. Doesn't matter to people with T1 links I guess but people hosted on shared servers and anyone else with dedicated IP might not like that :(. Mithun
Re: ANNOUNCE: Starting work on Apache::RedirectUnless
Stephen Adkins wrote: Is there an easier way to safeguard against Apache prompting for a password over HTTP? You could keep the secure areas outside the HTTP document root ?? Just a different DocumentRoot for HTTPS in your VirtualHost or separate httpd.conf. Mithun
Re: New Micro$oft vulnerability?
Just a thought but why are we even bothering about doing a complete response cycle for the probes ??? I mean nobody is actually going to care what my server says is it ?? I was thinking more about closing connection as soon as I figure out the URI. That way my server stays more productive and my outgoing bandwidth is also saved to a extent. Firstly I am not even sure how to terminate the response cycle at any given stage if at all possible. Secondly if I am sure I dont have a cmd.exe or root.exe to serve from my website should I still bother to complete the cycle ?? Mithun
Re: Can't build (was Re: Apache.pm fails to load...)
find / -name libssl.so.0 /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0 That seems like a nonstandard library path. Is it there in /etc/ld.so.conf and even if it is did you run ldconfig after adding it there ?? Mithun
Re: Multiple AddHandler statements
Right now I wont say that the idea of SSI is bad its just that the usual SSI implementations that I come accross are usually when I see them going wrong. The most common example is of that of including content for banners. I dont know whether it is a configuration goofup or something else but I have noticed quite a few times the application aborting and then the abort message turning up instead of the banner. If that person was doing a system call I am assuming he would have read it some where in a book or by perldoc - in any case it is well documented to trap errors. In my opinion I would have a rather well informed user putting HTML and other applications on my server than assume ignorance on their part. I have even seen users including HTML content by doing a cat filename - bad practice but then I could always claim my users dont know any better cant I. Another thing isnt SSI supposed to be slow for almost everything other than very rudimentary fucntions and that Finally SSI can be almost as good a replacement for rudimentary CGI and some templating work but I feel in the long run it is better to put a proper script or a template mechanism in place rather than sticking to SSI. Atleast I would rather make the effort to give a alternative solution to SSI. Mithun
Re: Multiple AddHandler statements
No offense meant but it is my personal opinion that SSI can mess up a system worse than Perl ever could. Also the person who had initiated this thread was using SSI to execute a third party application. I am not sure why a system command would be worse than doing a SSI. Mithun
Re: Apache+mod_perl+JServ
Hello list members, I was looking at various options to monitor applications running on my server and was wondering what is the usual practice in such situations. I am looking at data collection in the lines of sysstat. It collects data of various resources in real time and saves it in a binary format which can be later processed to extract relevant information and then analyzed in appropriate manner. In the current situation I would like to monitor the resource utilization by various modules over a period of time and any other factors affecting my web server. I am only concerned about applications running under modperl's jurisdiction. Mithun
Re: Multiple AddHandler statements
Is there something in SSI which cant be done in a better way using Perl ??
Re: Regarding modperl installation (fwd)
Hmm maybe someone can tell me what I am doing wrong ???
Mithun
--
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2
09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', optimize='-O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce',
gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Built under linux
Compiled at Feb 2 2000 15:35:58
@INC:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
.
PERLLOCAL(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PERLLOCAL(1)
the _M_D_5 manpage
+o installed into: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
+o LINKTYPE: dynamic
+o VERSION: 1.7
+o EXE_FILES:
3/Feb/2000 perl 5.005, patch 03 1
---
The following were downloaded first
Bundle::CPAN
File::Spec
Digest::MD5
Compress::Zlib
Archive::Tar
Bundle::libnet
and then I got.
---
Trying with /usr/bin/lynx -source to get
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Bundle-libnet-1.00.tar.gz
Trying with /usr/bin/lynx -source to get
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for
/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Bundle-libnet-1.00.tar.gz ok
Bundle-libnet-1.00/
Bundle-libnet-1.00/Makefile.PL
Bundle-libnet-1.00/libnet.pm
Bundle-libnet-1.00/README
Bundle-libnet-1.00/MANIFEST
Running make for G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
Trying with /usr/bin/lynx -source to get
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
Re: Regarding modperl installation (fwd)
I may be wrong on this but doesnt perl 5.05 come with CPAN v 1.48 ??? In anycase I am pretty sure I had to actually abort the upgrade if I wanted to keep my perl 5.05 everytime I tried to go to CPAN v 1.59. I will try to lay my hand on a clean box and try it out to see what happens and get back soon. Hmm to think of it I faintly recall something about libnet requiring IO::Sockets provided by perl 5.6.1 or something I am not sure maybe someone on the list can throw more light on that. Mithun
Re: Sendmail or not?
Am I correct in assuming that you are writing to a file based on user inputs in real time ?? Doesn't that imply you have to go around and implement some sort of file locking or queuing procedure in the handler itself ?? Personally I would rather take the overhead of firing off the MDA and let the mail subsytem worry about queuing timeouts and whatever else might come up. Mithun
Re: Sendmail or not?
You might want to actually try it out and see what kind of delays are involved in firing off the MDA. Under peak loads where the bottle neck would too many MDA's running at one time (most of the MDA code I assume would be shared though) and under low loads when the bottle neck would be of executing the MDA. By the way sendmail is not the only MDA available - you would get many MDA's with quite small footprint in case that becomes a bottleneck. What you could also try out is use SMTP to deliver to your own mailserver and then it can do the queueing. Ofcourse here your benchmark gets complicated by the fact that you need to stress test under peak loads for your webserver and mailserver both. Mithun PS: This has been discussed in the past and you might want to look at the archives too.
