I'm having a problem setting up Apache::Session on one machine and not another, and I'm hoping that someone will recognize what I'm doing wrong. I'm using Mason to make the connection to the package when Apache starts up. On the problem server, the following happens on server start-up: starting httpd... Ambiguous use of read => resolved to "read" => at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 35. Ambiguous use of write => resolved to "write" => at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 35. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 43. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 44. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 54. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 61. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 68. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 74. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 81. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 85. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 92. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 96. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 103. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 106. Ambiguous use of {read} resolved to {"read"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 110. Ambiguous use of {write} resolved to {"write"} at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 111. The server does start, however. But when I try to access a page that uses the session hash, the following appears in the httpd error log: [Thu Nov 4 11:17:21 1999] [error] Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Apache/Session/SysVSemaphoreLocker.pm line 64. I've checked the permissions on the module itself, the directory where the session files are stored, and the permissions of the owner of the httpd process. I've had no problem on another server, also running Linux 2.0.35. All the corresponding PERL modules seem synched, as well as the Apache httpd binaries. Here is the script that is called (part of Mason's start up script called handler.pl): # This block of code can be enabled to create a session-hash that every # component can access. This is useful for maintaining state across # multiple requests. The Apache::Session module is required. # my %session; my $cookie = $r->header_in('Cookie'); $cookie =~ s/SESSION_ID=(\w*)/$1/; tie %session, 'Apache::Session::File', $cookie, {'Directory' => '/tmp/session'}; $r->header_out("Set-Cookie" => "SESSION_ID=$session{_session_id};") if ( !$cookie ); # This creates a global called %session that is accessible in all components. # Feel free to rename this as needed. # local *HTML::Mason::Commands::session = \%session; $ah->handle_request($r); untie %HTML::Mason::Commands::session; This is Apache-Session-1.03 and HTML-Mason-0.72 on Apache 1.3.6. Thanks for any help/hints you can provide. Marc Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]