At 08:41 AM 10/26/2003 +0000, Ged Haywood wrote: >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ships with RedHat is out of date and IMHO should not be used at all.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.
Hi, The only comment I would have is that RH8.0 is not a good configuration "out of the box". The Perl installed is 5.8.0 which has issues with Unicode and made installing some modules impossible. My development machine, installed only last week, is RH8.0, Perl 5.8.1, Apache 1.3.28 and mod_perl 1.28 which I was able to get working quite satisfactorily in the end. I had trouble with some of the RPM's, so in the end I compiled everything from source, took a while, but it all worked the way it should whereas the binary distributions didn't. John
