Re: Couple of newbie questions

2002-07-17 Thread zentara
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:53:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kerr Wall) wrote: >Hi All, >What is the best way to test and debug? My vote is to use the ptkdb module. It is a graphical tk debugger for perl. It's beautiful, you can make break points, and list variable values; just watch the variables

RE: Couple of newbie questions

2002-07-16 Thread Joel Hughes
Hi Ker, It'll be the web server which is handling the requests obviously - probably Apache. If your running Perl CGI without mod perl installed in Apache then each request for the CGI will, I believe, cause another external process to be created invoking the system Perl compiler, the compiled resu

Re: Couple of newbie questions

2002-07-16 Thread perl-dvd
Kerr, Apache spawns a child for each web connection, while doing this, if a cgi script is called, it pulls a copy of the script into memory, executes it. Ways to debug: Yes Apache does have an error log, search your httpd.conf for "ErrorLog". That like specifies where Apache will write

Re: Couple of newbie questions

2002-07-16 Thread fliptop
Kerr Wall wrote: > How does perl handle multiple requests. For example, if 10 users are > logged into your system and they are all trying to use the same script, > how does perl deal with this situation? unless you're running mod_perl, a separete perl interpreter will start for each request