perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-15 Thread Jim Albert
Last week I had a problem where I could not get my Apache2/mod_perl2/perl5.8.3 web server to catch a SIGPIPE signal in a timely manner. I was asked to post a description of this problem and solution to this list so that it might be included in future mod_perl documentation. Feel free to adjus

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-15 Thread Jim Albert
Great! It's always nice to have multiple solutions to a problem. I believe Stas Bekman also pointed to the POSIX sigaction solution when he first pointed me in the right direction in solving this problem, but setting $ENV{PERL_SIGNALS} = "unsafe"; got me going with perl 5.8 very quickly. I mi

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-16 Thread Eric
Jim, Thank you! This was a big help to me in that I ran into this problem from two directions recently, with a perl daemon and with Apache::SIG.. I did find some info about fixing this for real rather than using unsafe signals. They mostly seemed to point to using the POSIX sigaction methods ra

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-16 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, Very glad I could be of some help, even though most of this was copy and paste and googling. I was in fact testing this on a FreeBSD server with 5.8.0, the production server is 5.8.4. Eric At 03:39 PM 6/15/2004, Jim Albert wrote: >Great! It's always nice to have multiple solutions to a p

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-30 Thread Stas Bekman
Eric Frazier wrote: Jim, Eric, so can you please put this thread together into one doc piece that can be added to the docs? -- __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH --> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guid

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-30 Thread Jim Albert
Stas Bekman wrote: Eric Frazier wrote: Jim, Eric, so can you please put this thread together into one doc piece that can be added to the docs? I had just noticed that I received none of the mod_perl mailings in the past 10 days or so. Looks like the mod_perl list mail server is on a spam blac

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-30 Thread Stas Bekman
Jim Albert wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Eric Frazier wrote: Jim, Eric, so can you please put this thread together into one doc piece that can be added to the docs? I had just noticed that I received none of the mod_perl mailings in the past 10 days or so. Looks like the mod_perl list mail server

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-06-30 Thread Jim Albert
Stas Bekman wrote: Jim Albert wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Eric Frazier wrote: Jim, Eric, so can you please put this thread together into one doc piece that can be added to the docs? I had just noticed that I received none of the mod_perl mailings in the past 10 days or so. Looks like the mod_per

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-07-21 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman wrote: Eric Frazier wrote: Jim, Eric, so can you please put this thread together into one doc piece that can be added to the docs? so any chance someone can put together the solutions from Eric and Jim, and the other suggestions I gave in the reply to the Jim's original question? And

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache

2004-11-24 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Eric Frazier wrote: Jim, Eric, so can you please put this thread together into one doc piece that can be added to the docs? so any chance someone can put together the solutions from Eric and Jim, and the other suggestions I gave in the reply to the Jim's ori

Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache - now mod_perl blacklisted

2004-06-30 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, Who ever is admining your mail server might want to look into using a *responsible* list. Spews routinely causes horror for many innocents, sometimes blocking whole datacenters over one account. Almost any other list is an improvement, I have noticed many lists follow along behind http://ww

[OT] Re: perl 5.8 safe signals and broken pipes in apache - now mod_perl blacklisted

2004-07-01 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Wednesday, 2004-06-30 at 13:42:16 -0700, Eric Frazier wrote: > Who ever is admining your mail server might want to look into using a > *responsible* list. Spews routinely causes horror for many innocents, > sometimes blocking whole datacenters over one account. For this partivular case, plea