Re: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects in Apache2/mod_perl2

2002-07-16 Thread Stas Bekman
French, Shawn wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: It seems that you are after the same functionality as Apache::DBI, you want a pool of items that you want to be able to choose from. Look for threads::shared (perl 5.8.0), just create a shared hash with keys that you use for the map and the values for

Re: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects in Apache2/mod_perl2

2002-07-15 Thread Stas Bekman
French, Shawn wrote: Hey everyone, It's me again... the persistent telnet mod_perl newbie! (http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/apache0205/204.html) I have implemented my project using persistent telnet connections (one for each user session accessible throught the session to perform

RE: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects in Apache2/mod_perl2

2002-07-15 Thread French, Shawn
Stas Bekman wrote: It seems that you are after the same functionality as Apache::DBI, you want a pool of items that you want to be able to choose from. Look for threads::shared (perl 5.8.0), just create a shared hash with keys that you use for the map and the values for the actual

Re: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-31 Thread Perrin Harkins
French, Shawn wrote: Recall that I am using: Apache/1.3.20 (Win32) mod_perl/1.25_01-dev mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6a on Windows 2000 with PHP 4.21 Would this be why my scripts are working? Mystery solved! Yes, that's why. You are running mod_perl in single process mode because you're on

Re: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-30 Thread Medi Montaseri
Perhaps you can put a System V message Queue in front of both Telnet connections, this way producers can place their messages in the queue asynchronously , and the backend (consumer) can pick them up in a FIFO. Also, try using Net::SSH::Perl. The Net::Telnet does not give your things like

RE: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-30 Thread French, Shawn
I just found this: http://www.devshed.com/Talk/Books/ProApache/page2.html On Windows platforms, Apache does not fork; consequently, the directives for controlling the number of processes or their lifetime have no effect. Instead, Apache runs as a multi-threaded process Recall that I am using:

RE: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-30 Thread Jim Helm
] Subject: RE: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects Perrin wrote: I can't see how it could be working now That makes two of us! You're probably opening new telnet connections from each apache process. I know that I am not since they are continuing to log to the same dump file, and my code

Re: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-29 Thread Perrin Harkins
French, Shawn wrote: Although this is working right now, I don't know enough [ anything? :) ] about Apache or mod_perl to be sure that this will work in the future. I can't see how it could be working now, unless it is actually creating a new Telnet object on every request. Your %sessionHash

RE: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-29 Thread mod_perl
Maybe you can tell us more about the project (e.g. why telnet ?) so there will come many bad advices ? :-) Peter Bi Perrin wrote: I can't see how it could be working now That makes two of us! You're probably opening new telnet connections from each apache process. I know that I

Re: Persistent Net::Telnet Objects

2002-05-29 Thread Rob Mueller (fastmail)
Our project needed persistent socket connections open as well. There is supposed to be a standard mechanism to pass file descriptors between unix processes, though it's bugginess level depends on your OS. There is a perl module for this called Socket::PassAccessRights. So what you can do is