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=md5 digest POST input type=hidden

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 files.

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 could

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 is

[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

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++) I would hear