Re: [AOLSERVER] Controlling perms on files written to by AOLserver

2004-02-24 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Janine Sisk wrote: We're using daemontools. I've put the umask command in the run script but it didn't help. Is it possible that the umask command is not being executed in the process that's the parent of nsd? For example, if the umask command is executed in a separate

Re: [AOLSERVER] Modifying client IP prior to writing in access log

2004-02-02 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Doug Harris wrote: I've identified where in nslog/nslog.c the necessary change would be made to write the value of this header rather than NsConnPeer(conn), but before I make the change, test, etc. I thought there might be an easier way that I'm overlooking. I think

Re: [AOLSERVER] Running different virtual servers as different users

2003-11-26 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Joshua Ginsberg wrote: And since nsd.tcl is interpreted, I can pull the config information from a database. There's a problem here...the ns_db module isn't loaded when you'd need it, so you can't for example, use it to figure out which virtual servers are run by this

Re: [AOLSERVER] Running different virtual servers as different users

2003-11-24 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Joshua Ginsberg wrote: I thought/hoped AOLServer worked in a similar manner. Nope. Doesn't. Sorry. Since each virtual server doesn't appear to share the same memory space No, they don't. (e.g. independent nsv buckets) Having independent buckets doen't imply

Re: [AOLSERVER] Running different virtual servers as different users

2003-11-24 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Andrew Piskorski wrote: I'm not familiar with how Apache's perchild MPM works, but from your description it sounds like Apache has some syntactic sugar to accomplish the exact same thing, using one Apache as the front end. Just for reference, syntactic sugar doesn't do

Re: [AOLSERVER] Running different virtual servers as different users

2003-11-24 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Bas Scheffers wrote: Peter M. Jansson said: Just for reference, syntactic sugar doesn't do justice to what the Apache team has accomplished. It's a deeper implementation than that. It probably is, but it has one _big_ problem compared to AOLserver when used

Re: [AOLSERVER] Running different virtual servers as different users

2003-11-23 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Joshua Ginsberg wrote: I'd like to be able to have different virtual servers running with the permissions of different users. Is this possible? Only possible if you use separate instances (and therefore processes) for the virtual servers. If you're hosting a bunch of

Re: [AOLSERVER] Lengthy tcl interp initialization

2003-08-15 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Elizabeth Thomas wrote: We are currently pursuing a very encouraging approach of adding an optional 'lazy proc definition' capability, capitalizing on the 'unknown' processing of tcl. (Thanks to Jeff Hobbes for putting us on this path). Since most of our threads use a

Re: [AOLSERVER] Are the weekly chats officially dead?

2003-08-01 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Compatibility with common apache features would go a long way towards wider adoption of AS Unless it would speed migration away from AOLserver. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF

Re: [AOLSERVER] apache compatibility (was: Are the weekly chats officially dead?)

2003-08-01 Thread Peter M. Jansson
the problem isn't that the functionality is missing, its not knowning syntax. Patrick's case is that he wants to use a 3rd-party package that requires Apache semantics, and it's not a matter of his knowing the syntax, (which he probably does anyway), but it's that the 3rd-party packages do

Re: [AOLSERVER] Are the weekly chats officially dead?

2003-07-31 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Dossy wrote: 2: full emulation of mod_rewrite and .htaccess files I know this isn't what you want to hear, but ... if you want Apache, then run Apache. :-) I'm in strong agreement. There's a lot in .htaccess that's fundamental Apache architecture (AddHandler in a

Re: [AOLSERVER] Are the weekly chats officially dead?

2003-07-31 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Patrick Spence wrote: Using filters is easy enough, I did it when I ran AS.. but I am running some third party stuff that is made more capable/powerful with mod_rewrite and .htaccess... and some other software that requires .htaccess so it makes it easier to work with...

Re: [AOLSERVER] Personal Certificate

2003-07-23 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Ok, I haven't figured out which of the following did it, but applying the following suggested changes to my config.tcl fixed the problem: ns_param ServerProtocols SSLv2 That was it. You told the server not to support client-side certs at all -- that's an SSL v3 thing (and

Re: [AOLSERVER] Personal Certificate

2003-07-21 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Barry Books wrote: Have you tried Safari 1.0? I've had SSL problems on my Mac also but for the most part they seem to be fixed since I upgraded. I don't know if it supports personal certificates though, but if you mean self signed I think you can now access sites with

Re: [AOLSERVER] sqlite and AOLserver

2003-06-07 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 09:39 AM, Wojciech Kocjan wrote: If noone has tried to write sqlite driver for nsdb, then where can I read more on how to write one myself? sqlite api seems pretty straightforward. This is a good candidate for an external driver, which would guarantee that no more

Re: [AOLSERVER] Run two instances of aolserver 3

2003-06-02 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Tom Brown wrote: The second instance server log says the server failed at nscp on port . The first instance already grabbed port . Turning off nscp in the second instance allowed the second server to start but left me without a control port -- even

Re: [AOLSERVER] CGI Memory Leak - AOLserver 3.x - *IMPORTANT*

2003-04-04 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Scott Goodwin wrote: The leak has been fixed in the CVS tree for AOLserver 3 (3.5 branch). Nice work, Scott! -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html List information and options:

Re: [AOLSERVER] Bug in tclhttp.c

2003-03-28 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Hey Alfred, How about using the Tcl wrapper and writing an AOLserver module to add curl support? I'm sure the core team would love a patch. You could verify the thread-safety claims. I'm sure the community would appreciate your work. Pete. Has anyone on the aolserver core team taken a look

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_register_proc

2003-03-28 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Why can't we just use POSIX regular expressions for all of the ns_register* procedures? I'd be concerned about REs degrading performance. REs are usually significantly slower than glob matches, and the registered proc matcher will be called a _lot_. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/

Re: [AOLSERVER] Database handles not being released in 4.0

2003-03-27 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 10:15 PM, paul cannon wrote: So http://aolserver.com/docs/devel/tcl/api/db.html is at best misleading: ns_db releasehandle puts the handle back in the pool. When your operation has finished running, the server will automatically return any handles to their pools,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Fwd: AOLServer 4

2003-03-27 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Andrey Chichak wrote: I want migrate from apache+php to aolserver+python :o) Do you know about PyWX? http://pywx.idyll.org/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html List

Re: [AOLSERVER] Database handles not being released in 4.0

2003-03-26 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 07:59 PM, paul cannon wrote: It seems that when a database handle is allocated in an ADP page and not explicitly released, AOLserver no longer releases it automatically. Is this true? If so, I can't find any documentation anywhere that would suggest this is the

Re: [AOLSERVER] Connecting to two different versions of Oracle

2003-03-25 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Another way to do this would be to use an external driver instead of an internal one. Then each external driver instance can have its own instance. The current external driver has performance issues if the AOLserver connects to the proxy using TCP, but as long as the connection is via pipes (the

Re: [AOLSERVER] Nesting ns_db select

2003-03-15 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: set classes [ns_db select $dbh SELECT * FROM classes] while {[ns_db getrow $dbh $classes]} { ns_puts trtdClass: .../td/tr set students [ns_db select $dbh \ SELECT * FROM students WHERE cid='[ns_set value $classes id]'] while

Re: [AOLSERVER] ADP: are if's possible?

2003-03-15 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: I'm certian that if you could have the ability to execute HTML inside of a if statement that you would also have the ability to do it the old way as well. A lot of people really want to try to turn ADP into either JSP or ASP. It doesn't have to be

Re: [AOLSERVER] MySQL and 4.0?

2003-03-14 Thread Peter M. Jansson
on 3/14/03 1:30 PM, Jeremy Cowgar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is their a mysql module that works with 4.0? The postgres one works great, but for speed concerns and the simplistic data I am storing, I think mysql would be a better choice. For those reasons, I'd stick with PostgreSQL,

Re: [AOLSERVER] AS 4.0 (beta 2) running on privledge port

2003-03-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
tried the same with 3.5.1, and that worked. I am on SuSE Linux 7.3, if that matters at all. Humm, I guess I need to do some more digging... Thanks, --brett On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:24, Peter M. Jansson wrote: On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Brett Schwarz wrote: However, NsPreBind

[AOLSERVER] nsopenssl 2.1 allergic to RedHat 8.0?

2003-03-05 Thread Peter M. Jansson
I updated one of my systems to RH 8.0, and then updated OpenSSL to 0.9.7, and now I'm having trouble compiling nsopenssl 2.1 from the tarball on ScottG's site. Anyone else have similar troubles? I'm digging in to try to figure it out, but I thought I'd ask the crew, in case someone else has an

Re: [AOLSERVER] AS 4.0 (beta 2) running on privledge port

2003-03-05 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Brett Schwarz wrote: However, NsPreBind does nothing is the -b or -B option are not given, when, I believe it should pre bind anyways from what is given in the config file. I could be wrong here. My inittab line:

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_register_filter problem: proc not found AOLserver HEAD

2003-03-03 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Sorry I didn't really read this sooner. I've got a preauth filter in my 4.0b2 setup, and it's working fine. I notice you declared your filter with no arguments, but I declared mine with this: proc some_filter { args } { Maybe it doesn't like being declared as having no arguments? Mine

Re: [AOLSERVER] Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

2003-02-25 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Rob Mayoff wrote: +-- On Feb 25, Dossy said: Added bonus would be a web interface for viewing zones and editing them, which would persist changes back down to the DBMS. Note that a web interface to your DNS data doesn't require that AOLserver

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_register_filter problem

2003-02-17 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Ross Simpson wrote: The problem with ns_register_proc is that it expects the requested file to exist -- something I don't want. No it doesn't.

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLServer4 nssock ?'s

2003-02-10 Thread Peter M. Jansson
You need to add to the command line a prebinding for the address and port on which you want to listen. For example, if you want to listen on port 80 of 10.0.0.1, add -b 10.0.0.1:80 to your startup command. - Original Message - From: Chris Goehring To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Fwd: AOLServer 4

2003-02-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Nathan Folkman wrote: Can someone who has actually used these features help Chris out? Thanks! 1. Can you specify a document root for each host Yes, and, in fact, you must. Each virtual server is separate, and there won't be any inheritence of features between them, so

Re: [AOLSERVER] mailman and aolserver

2003-02-02 Thread Peter M. Jansson
I think bug 230479 is the SCRIPT_NAME bug, although the aD QA entry it cites is no longer visible, as it appears these archives were not moved to RedHat. The bug is currently assigned to kriston; I don't know how to attach the bug to the beta group, but perhaps you can do it? On Sunday, February

Re: [AOLSERVER] Cold Fusion vs Tcl in AOLserver: Opinions

2003-01-30 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Scott, I'll disclaim that I don't have direct ColdFusion experience, but assuming that your developers are using the current CF runtime, and knowing that the current CF Runtime is a J2EE container, I'm not sure how much good news there is for you. Both AOLserver and J2EE containers use a

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_mutex is likely causing our AOL web server to hung - Memory problem

2003-01-30 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Seena Kasmai wrote: Would some please be kind enough and assist me how to only upgrade my TCL to 8.3.1 from my AOLserver/3.3.1+ad13 w/TCL 8.3 ?? For versions of AOLserver prior to 3.5, the Tcl implementation was tightly tied to the AOLserver, and the

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_mutex is likely causing our AOL web server to hung - Memory problem

2003-01-30 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 09:19 PM, Seena Kasmai wrote: Well, the strange thing is we never see such a behavior on 2.3.3 w/TCL 7. 0, and we run 4 web server with the same code/application. That's why I can't think of any code related issue. It's been a long time since I've used 2.3.3,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Cold Fusion vs Tcl in AOLserver: Opinions

2003-01-30 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Dossy wrote: As I said to Scott offlist, I did write a custom CFX tag, called CFX_TCL, that lets you evaluate Tcl code from your CF app. I'm going to hell for it, I know ... Time to rewrite it for JACL. :-)

Re: [AOLSERVER] Cold Fusion vs Tcl in AOLserver: Opinions

2003-01-30 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 09:53 PM, Patrick Spence wrote: but... I am not brave enough to attempt hacking into dreamweavers extension setup yet I'm a GoLive user, so I won't be much help here, either.

Re: [AOLSERVER] adp parsers and aolserver 4.0

2003-01-20 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Patrick Spence wrote: I would love to have it as an option, since my foray into PHP under aolserver I have found that to be a very nice extension.. that way I don't have to craft large chunks of html, convert all the quotes to backslash quotes and then ns_puts it all

Re: [AOLSERVER] adp parsers and aolserver 4.0

2003-01-20 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Grrr. I'm doing exactly those kinds of things. Here's an example: In adp_recall.tcl: ns_register_adptag dnr_remember /dnr_remember dnr_adp_remember proc dnr_adp_remember {input tagset} { global _dnr_adp_memory set tagname [ns_set iget $tagset name] if {[string length

[AOLSERVER] OTish: Data abstraction facilities in Tcl

2003-01-17 Thread Peter M. Jansson
(...that work in AOLserver.) So, I've been writing Tcl for AOLserver since it only ran Tcl 7.4, and you only had 3 choices for storing data in Tcl -- scalars, lists and arrays. Things like a list of arrays weren't possible; if you wanted to have such a thing, you had to fake it. I admit, I've

Re: [AOLSERVER] OTish: Data abstraction facilities in Tcl

2003-01-17 Thread Peter M. Jansson
I swear, I knew this had been discussed before, I just was looking for pointers. I found the right set of things to ask Google, and came up with these http://www.pinds.com/acs-tips/tcl-data-structures Lars doesn't believe Tcl is good for this stuff http://mini.net/tcl/2995 The

Re: [AOLSERVER] OTish: Data abstraction facilities in Tcl

2003-01-17 Thread Peter M. Jansson
I got this... On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Dossy wrote: Generally, when I find myself needing things like, say, a list of arrays, in Tcl, they tend to be design smells. It's the I can write Perl in any language! syndrome. ...and this: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Brett Schwarz wrote: I am just curious,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Browser Id

2003-01-16 Thread Peter M. Jansson
In a Tcl script or .adp page: set headers [ns_conn headers] set browser_type [ns_set iget $headers user-agent] On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:11 AM, linqs wrote: Hi Is there any possibility to find out which web browser a client uses? regards linqs

Re: [AOLSERVER] New to AOLServer (using with OACS4.6 head + postgres 7.3.1)

2003-01-16 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 04:15 PM, tammy wrote: [30/Dec/2002:15:08:59][28103.1024][-main-] Warning: modload: failed to load '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nspostgres.so': 'libpq.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' You may need to explicitly set the

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4: Virtual server fix

2003-01-15 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Tim Moss wrote: localhost localhost what does the mean? It means: a.) You haven't applied the patch I sent, and b.) You tried to access the server using a hostname of localhost, but localhost was not mapped to any

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4: Virtual server fix

2003-01-15 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:56 PM, Tim Moss wrote: OK, all patches applied and rebuilt. All seems to be working - thank you very much for your help Peter. Glad to help. By the way here's my config file: (might be a neat way to avoid having a huge config file) I do something

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4: Virtual server fix

2003-01-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Sure. Except what I sent was broken. I grabbed the default server from the wrong place. /me hangs head in shame. OK, now it works. Corrected patch follows: diff -ur --exclude=CVS aolserver/nsd/nsd.h aolserver-vsfix/nsd/nsd.h --- aolserver/nsd/nsd.h Tue Oct 29 19:01:51 2002 +++

Re: [AOLSERVER] Virtual server fix - third time's the charm?

2003-01-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
OK, now I took out the Ns_Log statement I used to debug this. It still works. diff -ur --exclude=CVS aolserver/nsd/nsd.h aolserver-vsfix/nsd/nsd.h --- aolserver/nsd/nsd.h Tue Oct 29 19:01:51 2002 +++ aolserver-vsfix/nsd/nsd.h Mon Jan 13 21:33:47 2003 @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ typedef int bool;

Re: [AOLSERVER] Virtual server fix - not yet

2003-01-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
There's some subtle dependency, because on certain responses (410, for example, with 0 bytes of content), the content-length gets blown away when using my patch. I'd hold off for now, and I'll see what's the matter. Pete.

[AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4: nsd/return.c bug

2003-01-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
If a head command is issued, then no data (including the headers) is written to the client. Also, the length of the headers is subtracted from the sent bytes count in the conn, causing the sent bytes count to go negative (except that in nslog/nslog.c, the count is rendered as an unsigned, so it

[AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4: Virtual server fix (again)

2003-01-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! Again? Yep, I've got this patch again. I think it's OK now; the bad behavior I noticed earlier seems to have come from another bug. Also, I moved the defaultserver element in the nsconf struct to the bottom, to make sure it wasn't goofing up

Re: [AOLSERVER] gzip compression

2003-01-05 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jim Davidson wrote: I'm not sure this could be done well in a single, global manner. Instead, hooks for the three most common request paths directly in the aolserver core may be needed: [snip] perhaps this stuff should be a compile time option triggered on with a

Re: [AOLSERVER] Multiple Domains with one IP

2003-01-03 Thread Peter M. Jansson
By now, you seem to have links to most of the major virtual domain implementations for AOLserver; what you might not have is some data for figuring out which to use. I can fill in a little... Since AOLserver 3.x, virtual domains are no longer supported in AOLserver (although they are coming back

Re: [AOLSERVER] Multiple Domains with one IP

2003-01-03 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Dossy wrote: Doing reverse-proxy with nssock, you only see the IP address of your reverse-proxy in your nslog ... with nsunix, you see the IP address of the actual requesting client. This is important to some people, me included. Funny, I was just

Re: [AOLSERVER] Mutiple Domains with one IP

2003-01-03 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 04:04 PM, Shawn Nussbaum wrote: Can nslog be configured to print out the HOST or URL values from ns_conn? Yes. Add this line: ns_paramextendedheaders Host to your ns/server/${servername}/module/nslog section.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers

2002-12-16 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Are you sure that the user mentioned in the -u user argument to nsd has execute permission on $aolhome/bin/iusid.so? On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 06:01 PM, Durga wrote: I have a one more problem. Here it is: I am trying utilize the Port 80, so when I try to start the websever as root(

[AOLSERVER] ns_puts or ns_adp_puts?

2002-12-04 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Both of these commands exist, and will run the same code. I seem to recall that ns_puts is deprecated in favor of ns_adp_puts, for better naming consistency, but the code doesn't say, and the CVS log doesn't give a clue, either. Which is preferred? Or are both equally preferred? (or equally

[AOLSERVER] ns_adp_registertag or ns_adp_registercmd?

2002-12-04 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Another one. Both of these commands are registered, and run the same code, and the code does not appear to differentiate between the two. The current HTML docs define ns_adp_registertag, but do not define ns_adp_registertag. Should both be defined, with ns_adp_registercmd marked as deprecated?

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_adp_registertag or ns_adp_registercmd?

2002-12-04 Thread Peter M. Jansson
and ns_adp_registeradp ought to be considered deprecated. /s. - Original Message - From: Peter M. Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:29 PM Subject: [AOLSERVER] ns_adp_registertag or ns_adp_registercmd? Another one. Both

Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 07:26 PM, Durga wrote: [20/Nov/2002:17:16:25][1753.25][-conn1-] Error: exec: process 6534 exited from signal: 11 [20/Nov/2002:17:16:25][1753.25][-conn1-] Error: exec: process 6534 dumped core Is the Informix driver an external driver? If so, it looks like

Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Durga, What do you get from running pstack on the core file?

Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Peter M. Jansson
command? -Original Message- From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter M. Jansson Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers Durga, What do you get from running pstack on the core file?

Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Durga wrote: I also did strings core, here is what I get: Sorry, but that doesn't help.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers

2002-11-21 Thread Peter M. Jansson
: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter M. Jansson Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Informix Drivers pstack /path/to/core On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:03 PM, Durga wrote: Pete, How do I issue a command on core

Re: [AOLSERVER] using aolserver for mail

2002-11-19 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We sometimes have to send millions of emails every week (not spam), and sendmail simply cannot handle the volume that a out of the box qmail configuration can. Nothing is as beautiful as seeing qmail simultaneously send 256

Re: [AOLSERVER] using aolserver for mail

2002-11-18 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 05:16 PM, Gabriel Ricard wrote: So, has this been done already? Or even thought of? Is it possible? Primehost used to have a module that would speak rudimentary SMTP, but it would mostly forward messages on to a delivery hub. I doubt the code would work in

Re: [AOLSERVER] using aolserver for mail

2002-11-18 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:04 PM, Steve Manning wrote: Have you read the 'bat' book for SendMail? - it'll give you an idea of the complexities of address rewriting. In all fairness, sendmail's address rewriting capabilities date to a time before TCP/IP was the lingua franca, and

Re: [AOLSERVER] using aolserver for mail

2002-11-18 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:11 PM, Gabriel Ricard wrote: (I don't really want to touch sendmail at all - too wary of security issues). Cut that out! Sendmail has no active security issues, and hasn't had a live exploit in at least five years. There are reasons you may want to avoid

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Dossy wrote: I'm glad the open source community's getting to reinvent the Sun/Java wheel, but ... Which is a reinvention of the Smalltalk wheel.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Titus Brown wrote: Now that would be nice... ;) Smalltalk and Objective C both seem to be interesting languages that are much neglected these days. The Squeak project (http://www.squeak.org/) seems fairly active, and ObjC got new focus because

Re: [AOLSERVER] problems

2002-11-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 02:20 PM, Seth Fitzsimmons wrote: Is there a list of Tcl commands that aren't threadsafe and thus shouldn't be used in AS? I don't think this is an issue of thread safety, so much as bugs in the implementation or use of commands that can cause problems. The

Re: [AOLSERVER] Emacs indents for tcl and C

2002-11-12 Thread Peter M. Jansson
I thought this issue was addressed in the AOLserver Engineering Standards Manual: http://www.aolserver.com/docs/devel/tech/standards.html#low I don't think we'll benefit from rehashing this issue, especially since a large number of other open-source projects are sticking with spaces. I'd

Re: [AOLSERVER] Emacs indents for tcl and C

2002-11-12 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:24 AM, Simon Millward wrote: Mind you what really surprises me is that I've *never* met anyone who prefers tabs before...? For the record, I generally prefer tabs in my own work. Twenty years ago I worked with plenty of people who preferred tabs. Today, I

Re: [AOLSERVER] HTTP 1.1 Pipelining.

2002-11-11 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 03:35 AM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: pipelineing ... keepalive ... What's the difference between the two? I thought pipelining was the ability to send in more than one request without waiting for the first to finish; responses are returned in order of request.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Emacs indents for tcl and C

2002-11-11 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 11:43 PM, Jerry Asher wrote: Why tabs? If you are an emacs user, then the tab key means indent this line to the proper level, and you don't care whether it uses tabs or spaces (but spaces work out better on many printers). If you use an editor for which the

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver Project Update

2002-11-11 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 01:22 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote: a list is really just a scalar with whitespace between the elements Woah, that last part isn't true at all, and is a common misconception that leads people to think Tcl isn't up-to-snuff, which isn't true. [snip] That means that

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver Project Update

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 09:27 PM, Gabriel Ricard wrote: - Note: my only gripe with ADP is that the following does not appear to work: if { [check $something] == 1 } { % bbreak out of Tcl mode and process some HTML

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver Project Update

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 09:35 AM, Dossy wrote: This is how I implement this: % if {[check $something] == 1} { ns_adp_puts { bbreak out of Tcl mode and process some HTML conditionally/b } } % The only reason I do the other

Re: [AOLSERVER] URL case insensitivity.

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 12:51 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: Does anyone know of a solution better than storing the files on a FAT filesystem with Linux doing the case reversion in the filesystem layer? If you run it on Mac OS X off of an HFS+ partition, you'll get the case-insensitive,

Re: [AOLSERVER] URL case insensitivity.

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 01:43 PM, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: Here is a TCL hack to serve files w/o case sensitivity (not tested): That works when the problem is people entering http://someserver/FOO; rather than http://someserver/foo;, but it won't help the case where someone entered the

Re: [AOLSERVER] URL case insensitivity.

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 02:05 PM, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: But in the problem definition, all files were stored in lowercase on disk. :) Sorry about that. I had my brain filters on when reading.

[AOLSERVER] ACT voting procedural question

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Since AOL already has representatives on the core team, should AOL employees be prohibited from voting for community core team members?

Re: [AOLSERVER] How I'll vote for core team members (long)

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
You must have skipped over the Voltron paragraph. On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Scott S. Goodwin wrote: I don't consider myself a black-belt in the martial art of coding, which means I probably don't qualify based on the criteria you've given, so I guess I lost your vote.

Re: [AOLSERVER] How I'll vote for core team members (long)

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Scott S. Goodwin wrote: Should the AOL dev team members have a vote? Absolutely. They are involved with AOLserver as individuals, they run the largest sites that use AOLserver. I've been lucky enough to get some contracting gigs with AOL over the

Re: [AOLSERVER] How I'll vote for core team members (long)

2002-11-08 Thread Peter M. Jansson
My point was that my criteria -- and they are just mine, I don't think anyone should feel obliged to use them -- were less a set of checkboxes than a set of weighted scores, and that the scores for the individual can balance with the scores for team as a whole. If one person is weaker at coding,

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-07 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Or in an external database driver. You can set up a driver where the SQL it accepts is whatever you need, and then it returns results in a single column of a single row. This works especially well if you want to set up a pool of them On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 04:49 AM, Zoran Vasiljevic

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-07 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 11:03 PM, Nathan Folkman wrote: What are the major differences that would need to be bridged between the stock 3.5.1 code base and 3.3+ad13 The ACS version of AOLserver has i18n support and changes in the DB interface to support bind variables for the Oracle

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver Project Update

2002-11-07 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 09:27 PM, Gabriel Ricard wrote: I guess I'm just spoiled by the associative arrays in PHP. Tcl arrays are associative. Tcl has pretty much 3 data structures: - scalars - lists - arrays (which are associative) The trick is that a list is

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
I recently tried the Solaris malloc debugging facility, but the AOLserver (running ACS) went from taking about 5 minutes to start up to taking over 72 hours to start up. AOLserver uses so much dynamic memory that any malloc debugging solutions that work by adding virtual-memory hardware guard

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 06:00 PM, Dossy wrote: Sorry I can't be more constructive. I just had a problem like this, and didn't solve it, so the system just crashes regularly. Ouch. That's a real drag. Want to describe the problem in case there might be some ideas from the

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Yes, Purify definitely seems to be the way to go. On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: But then I got Purify, which AFAIK covers everything that Electric Fence can do

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 10:56 PM, Janine Sisk wrote: I haven't a clue what's going on in there, but it can't be good! You could try to attach gdb to the running process, and then poke around (start with a stack backtrace); many Unix variants allow this. You could also just kill

Re: [AOLSERVER] alloc: invalid block errors

2002-11-05 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 03:21 PM, Scott S. Goodwin wrote: Don't let this stop you from writing manual or automated tests -- it should be fairly straightforward to migrate that code into the framework. Or from using other quality management tools than testing -- those get forgotten a

Re: [AOLSERVER] Sign Up for AOLserver Documentation!

2002-11-03 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 02:09 PM, Scott Goodwin wrote: It breaks the unix standard of one command per man page I think Tcl commands are more akin to library calls than shell commands, and there is no standard for a single library call per man page. For examples, look at the

Re: [AOLSERVER] Sign Up for AOLserver Documentation!

2002-11-03 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 02:33 PM, Scott Goodwin wrote: Documenting multiple commands on the same page ... will confuse the readers I disagree; I find, for example, that the traditional AOLserver documentation including all variants of ns_return on a single page helps me to better

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_sendmail

2002-11-01 Thread Peter M. Jansson
But I'd avoid using ns_sendmail for a production system, unless you build around it the mechanisms to handle retries on failures. If you're calling ns_sendmail from a .adp, and the sendmail server, for some reason, isn't up, you'll just get an error, and lose what would have been in the message.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Good reading: Yahoo moving to PHP

2002-10-30 Thread Peter M. Jansson
The article mentions that they stayed away from Java because of the thread implementation on FreeBSD (presumably 4.x). Given that AOLserver uses threads heavily, does anyone have experience running it under FreeBSD? Is it OK? OK under load?

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