Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jeff Beard wrote:
> > I have a couple of package globals that I'd like to populate with
> > information from a database when I fire up the web server
> [...]
> > I thought it might be as simple a declaring the variables and
> > populating them the first run of the program but that's no good.
>
> That should work, but you have to do it before the fork (i.e. in
> startup.pl or something called from it) and you have to make the variables
> globals not lexicals.
And make sure you don't try to re-use the database handle in the
daughter Apache processes...
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