Hi there, On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Robert Friberg wrote:
> rather old Red Hat Linux, RH 6.0 on intel. > [snip] > Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.21 Ouch. They do need upgrading. > Besides some occasional and seemingly random segfaults > the testsites are running fine. "Segfaults" and "fine" should not be in the same sentence. I haven't had a segfault in production for several years. > Surely there are a few bugs in my code but I think its time to > upgrade anyways, maybe then the seggies will disappear. It's possible. > Are there any known issues with Redhat 8.0 which ships with perl > 5.8.0, httpd 2.0.40 and mod_perl 1.99? Yes. It's been discussed a lot here recently, check the archives. I'd recommend Apache 1.3.28 + mod_perl 1.29. The mod_perl 1.99 which ships with RedHat is out of date and IMHO should not be used at all. Version 2 of mod_perl is still experimental, if you're prepared for a time of relative instability it might be the way to go but I wouldn't put it on a production server. I'm still using Perl 5.005_03 in production, but there are those who would say I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. You shouldn't have any problems with 5.8.1 and even 5.8.0 should be OK if you check the archives to see the experiences that other people have had, particularly with locale. I've used 5.8.0 on development machines for a while with no problems but my development boxes are a real motley bunch of homegrown systems so that's really nothing to go by if you're stuck with RedHat. HTH 73, Ged.
