My OS X Adventures

2002-04-11 Thread David Wheeler
Hi All, Thanks to the hard work of those who have gone before me, I've managed to get all the Perl-oriented tools I need working under Mac OS X. I was spending a lot of effort on documenting what I needed to do, so I went the extra mile and wrote up an article on what I did and how I did it. And

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Charles Albrecht
At 11:55 AM -0700 4/11/2002, Alex S wrote: > >My real point is not a matter of technical savviness. It's more that >something Apple pushed out broke something I, and others have setup. I >might even have been more cautious about the update IF they listed it as >something being updated, which

Re: more security update woes

2002-04-11 Thread David Wheeler
On 4/11/02 9:46 AM, "Rick Frankel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: > Tangential to the mod_perl issue, has anyone else noticed that > ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no longer being parsed on login after > the security update? Seems to be working for me. Regards, David -- David Wheeler

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Alex S
PK, here, stands to represent the opposite of myself... he represents the "bulk" that I was referring to that would have the knowledge to do a very simple CPAN install/update, and even cut'n'pasting commands for a manual recompile (which are easy to find with a quick google search), but wouldn

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 4/11/02 1:31 PM, "PK Eidesis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But this whole Perl 5.6.1, mod_perl crapola has left me very befuddled. In > some ways I have myself to blame because I dicked with Apple's stock 5.6.0 > install... I never should have done that. Otoh, Perl/CPAN/mod_perl install > sh

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:28 PM, Alex S wrote: > Well, since Apple is the one pushing out the update to Apache (and > related modules), they know what they're changing (including libraries). It's true that Apple knows what *they're* changing, but the problem is that they have no way o

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Alex S
Oh... and despite the "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts"... I hope this thread will help enlighten and educate those who need to know, and solve their problems. That's why I summarized my solution about the linking of libraries in the first place. It's often VERY annoying when I have a problem, and

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Alex S
Sherm Pendley wrote: > No need to wonder about what it's doing - just watch the output when > you configure and make Perl, and then you'll know for certain. > > The answer to your question is, no, the Perl compile/installation does > not do any relinking for things that were linked against libp

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Alex S wrote: > I wonder if the Perl compile/installation does the relinking for > things that were dependent on it (would be a good thing, making things > simple, and catching everything). No need to wonder about what it's doing - just watch the outp

more security update woes

2002-04-11 Thread Rick Frankel
Tangential to the mod_perl issue, has anyone else noticed that ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no longer being parsed on login after the security update? rick

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Alex S
Chris Devers wrote: >>>But isn't it supposed to not work unless it offers error messages? >>> >>You would think so >> > >I was having fun with the [snipped] double negative earlier... :) > Yeah, I kinda figured... just covering the bases. ;) >>Well, the thing is, I don't think it even gets tha

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Alex S
Sherm Pendley wrote: >> wondering if the mod_perl library was reinstalled with the new Apache >> (probably), which had some dynamic linking done, designed for perl 5.6.0 >> (or possibly vice-versa), and the updated copy got "out of sync" with >> the >> newer perl. > > > Of course it got out of s

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, BeardedDragon.org wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:05:46 -0400 (EDT), Chris Devers wrote: > > > But isn't it supposed to not work unless it offers error messages? > > You would think so I was having fun with the [snipped] double negative earlier... :) > > It's only a partial

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 11:32 AM, BeardedDragon.org wrote: > wondering if the mod_perl library was reinstalled with the new Apache > (probably), which had some dynamic linking done, designed for perl 5.6.0 > (or possibly vice-versa), and the updated copy got "out of sync" with > the > ne

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Puneet Kishor
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 09:51 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote: > >> I have started experiencing these problems on my iBook ever since I >> upgraded Perl to 5.6.1. > > When you did that, did you also recompile mod_perl, or at leas

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote: > I have started experiencing these problems on my iBook ever since I > upgraded Perl to 5.6.1. When you did that, did you also recompile mod_perl, or at least install a version of mod_perl that's compiled against Perl 5.6.1? If yo

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread BeardedDragon.org
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:34:09 -0500, Puneet Kishor wrote: > if it is a general mod_perl issue then it should be happening to, and be > well documented for, a lot of other users. I have done some bg search on > this, and not found anyone else experiencing the same symptoms. That is, > until Alex

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Puneet Kishor
obviously, right the load and add module lines for mod_erl are commented out. But, the rigmarole is the same... 1. I start the computer; Apache is not working. 2. Try to restart it; it doesn't work (no errors). 3. I comment out the lines (as below), start Apache; it works. 4. I uncomment the lin

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread BeardedDragon.org
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:20:00 +1000, Ken Williams wrote: > > However, I figured it out. I had updated perl to 5.6.1 when > > installing a module through CPAN. > > Don't you hate it when that happens? Yeah, although I don't think it does it automatically in OS X. The compile fails, due to HFS

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Puneet Kishor
Chris, (Alex), On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 09:05 AM, Chris Devers wrote: > > It's only a partial remedy, but are your mod_perl related config > statments > wrapped in an appropriate block? > > > PerlSendHeader On > PerlHandler Apache::Registry > AddHandler perl

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread BeardedDragon.org
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:05:46 -0400 (EDT), Chris Devers wrote: > But isn't it supposed to not work unless it offers error messages? You would think so, but there are no error messages pertaining to a problem. And Apache ends up not running. I think that is the most disturbing thing. > It's onl

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote: > I think I wrote too soon... my Apache/mod_perl combo is back to the same > as it was... that is, not working without any error messages. But isn't it supposed to not work unless it offers error messages? ;) It's only a partial remedy, but are your mo

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Puneet Kishor
Alex, I think I wrote too soon... my Apache/mod_perl combo is back to the same as it was... that is, not working without any error messages. I am really getting sick of this. On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 02:48 AM, Alex S wrote: > Alex S wrote: > >>> I know this doesn't help you much, but

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 05:48 PM, Alex S wrote: > > However, I figured it out. I had updated perl to 5.6.1 when > installing a module through CPAN. Don't you hate it when that happens? > My other Mac that was working still had 5.6.0. So, I decided to > downgrade perl back to 5.6.0.

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Alex S
Alex S wrote: >> I know this doesn't help you much, but maybe it will give some insights. > > > Thanks for the response. I think my next step will be to download the > update and try to rerun it manually. Maybe the update had some minor, > unreported failure when I ran it. Okay.. well, the