[ANNOUNCE] mod_perl-1.28

2003-07-03 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
The URL http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.28.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.28.tar.gz size: 375986 bytes md5: 889ad726a6d7c2fe03b2b1b93662f515 Changes since 1.27: Apache::FakeRequest now isa Apache so code that is carefull about $r and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] mod_perl-1.28

2003-07-03 Thread Steve Hay
Hi Philippe, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: The URL http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.28.tar.gz has entered CPAN I still get the same test failures that I reported before when RC2 was announced: modules/request...FAILED tests 3-8 Failed 6/10 tests, 40.00% okay Setup: Windows

Is statically-compiled mod_perl better?

2003-07-03 Thread ColinB
What is the preferred method of compiling mod_perl - static or dynamic? I have read that *static* linking is likely to load and execute faster, but may be wasteful of resources if there are multiple proceses each with its own copy of the common code. It therefore seems likely that a statically

Re: If (!$one_thing) {$other;}

2003-07-03 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Dennis Stout wrote: This also means I can write a small subroutine to eval a form that's been posted, and given the authentication passes, add code to the thing while it's running, AND save the code to the DB so it'll be around for reboots. Wouldn't that just

Re: Is statically-compiled mod_perl better?

2003-07-03 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, ColinB wrote: What is the preferred method of compiling mod_perl - static or dynamic? Static. (But that's just my opinion after years of experience and watching people running into trouble with DSO mod_perl on this List. :) I have read that *static* linking is

Re: Is statically-compiled mod_perl better?

2003-07-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ged == Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ged A recent post by Randal seemed to indicate the memory saved Ged by using a DSO mod_perl wasn't as large as one might think - check the Ged archives. And I've confirmed that observation at least on Solaris and OpenBSD. You can build a static

[ANNOUNCE] OpenInteract 1.99_01 (2.0 beta 2) released

2003-07-03 Thread Chris Winters
The second beta of OpenInteract2 (1.99_01) has been released to CPAN and SourceForge. The release: includes many documentation updates, has a totally revamped logging system using log4perl, supports multiple content generators, introduces content filters and has a bunch of other features,

Re: Is statically-compiled mod_perl better?

2003-07-03 Thread ColinB
Thanks for the comments. I guess I'll just have to stick with the dynamically-linked mod_perl 2.0 for the time being. I'll keep checking the mod_perl 2.0 site pages and pick up a static-capable version when it becomes available. Colin __ Do you

Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Ranga Nathan
I made a simple mod_perl change to the config and when restarting Apache I got this error: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:2250 no listening sockets available, shutting down /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl: line 87: 16512 Segmentation fault $HTTPD

Re: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Dennis Stout
I made a simple mod_perl change to the config and when restarting Apache I got this error: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:2250 no listening sockets available, shutting down /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl: line 87: 16512 Segmentation fault

Re: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Dennis Stout wrote: I made a simple mod_perl change to the config and when restarting Apache I got this error: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:2250 no listening sockets available, shutting down

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Ensch
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:28:43PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:08, Peter B. Ensch wrote: Coding in plain CGI I've often require'd files containing data in perl data-structures. The script may write to the file (via Data::Dumper for example) allowing subsequent

Re: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Ranga Nathan
Ged Haywood wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Dennis Stout wrote: I made a simple mod_perl change to the config and when restarting Apache I got this error: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:2250 no listening sockets available, shutting down

RE: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Hauck, William B.
You can use netstat -a to list all the ports in use--look for your configured port or 'http' you might wanna try ps -ef | grep http to search for a process not in top's display (can you see all? Try setting n=100 and expanding xterm (if using one)). If 'ps -ef | grep http'

Re: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Gedanken
I know this is not of much help, but I have had situations where a badly terminating process would prevent subsequent processes from using that port. on windows, i never found a solution other than to reboot. on solaris 7, i never found a solution other than to wait 8 minutes. I did some

Re: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ranga Nathan wrote: In other words there's an Apache still running The 'top' output is : [snip] How can I get a list of ports being used so I can kill the processes? As I said, there may be more wrong than just what's obvious. It looks like the obvious

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:38, Peter Ensch wrote: I'm using CGI::Application and this part of the code happens inside the cgiapp_init() method which I'm overriding: our $USERS : unique = /path/to/users.dat; sub cgiapp_init { my $self = shift; $self-param('users' = require ${\$USERS}); }

Re: Apache config problem .. please help

2003-07-03 Thread Ranga Nathan
Gedanken wrote: I know this is not of much help, but I have had situations where a badly terminating process would prevent subsequent processes from using that port. on windows, i never found a solution other than to reboot. on solaris 7, i never found a solution other than to wait 8

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Ensch
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:51:23PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:38, Peter Ensch wrote: I'm using CGI::Application and this part of the code happens inside the cgiapp_init() method which I'm overriding: our $USERS : unique = /path/to/users.dat; sub

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:16, Peter Ensch wrote: So, to reiterate, I may write to users.dat on one transaction and read on another; the file contents is always up-to-date. The file is up-to-date, or the param 'users' is? The file is. IE. it gets written and and the new stuff is

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Ensch
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:24:35PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:16, Peter Ensch wrote: So, to reiterate, I may write to users.dat on one transaction and read on another; the file contents is always up-to-date. The file is up-to-date, or the param 'users'

Re: require'ing data files under mod_perl

2003-07-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 16:59, Peter Ensch wrote: OK. Thanks. Well, yes it is being reloaded whenever the form is submitted and w/out restarting the server. Here's some of the output (error_log): [Thu Jul 3 15:52:00 2003] users.dat: users.dat loaded by process 18294 at /opt/a... [Thu Jul 3

MP1, Redhat 7.3: Transmission size limited after some time

2003-07-03 Thread Gerd Knops
Hi all, I got a really odd problem: I have identical mod_perl/apache installs on FreeBSD 3.x systems and a few Redhat 7.3 systems. After some time running OK, the Redhat systems start acting up. Transmissions are suddenly cut of after somewhere between 90 and 150 kb. Absolutely nothing in any