Re: Looking for a new distro

2001-01-13 Thread Sean D. Cook
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, dreamwvr wrote: > Try .. > www.linux-mandrake.com > Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > Not to turn this into a distro war but mandrake is not exactly known for its stability. Redhat is currently in a .0 release which is not stable at all. Debian and Slackware are really your best bet

Re: Very WIRED error msg

2000-10-23 Thread Sean D. Cook
> > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > It looks like you are trying to check the return value from a mod_perl handler. my $foo = handler(); if($foo == 1){ # this won't work :) } sub handler {

Re: Remembering Authentication

2000-10-17 Thread Sean D. Cook
Why not just write the app to use session and store to the db. It is not hard to do. Auth to db/ldap cook up a digest with $$, username, and remote_ip. Store all userinfo in Storable object in the db/ldap. GET http://some.where.net/?sessionID= POST > No worrying about browser type, client

Re: Fast DB access

2000-10-11 Thread Sean D. Cook
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd wrote: > Hi, > > We have an application where we will have to service as high as 50 queries a second. > We've discovered that most database just cannot keep pace. > > The only option we know is to service queries out of flat file

[SOT] mod_perl on IBM s390

2000-10-05 Thread Sean D. Cook
I know that rescently IBM has been successfull in running thousands of instances of linux on the H30-H70 series machines. I am wondering if anyone is using one of these beasts to run mod_perl in a production environment and what kind of millage you are getting. Thanks in advance for you input.

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Sean D. Cook
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an authentication scheme which checks every request for a valid > cookie, and if your session has timed out redirects to a login page. After > logging in, the request is resubmitted as a GET. This works great except > when the original post i

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-05 Thread Sean D. Cook
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:42:50PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > > Yeah, I was thinking something along these lines. Don't know if I need > > something as complex as IPC. I was thinking of perhaps a second Apache > > server set up just to handle long-term processing. Then the first server > >

Re: OOP and mod_perl question

2000-09-29 Thread Sean D. Cook
> Andreas Grupp wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I am trying to develop for the first time a perl module. It should work on a > > server with mod_perl. The objects are not using mod_perl ($r) and are just > > solving some of my work in a nicer way. Since I'm new in OOP on perl (I only > > know C++