Hello Anand -
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:58:50AM +1100, Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
> > Hello Anand -
>
> Hi Hugh,
>
> > We have recently had a similar problem with another customer using a DBM
> > Session Database on Solaris. It turned out that the Perl they were running had
> > threading turned on and that seemed to be the problem. They have since turned
> > threading off in Perl and moved to an SQL Session Database, and their problems
> > have been resolved.
> >
> > Could you check the same things and let us know the result? BTW - if you don't
> > want to use an SQL Session Database, you can also force Perl to use a different
> > DBM library by editing the file Radius/SessDBM.pm:
> >
> > # This will cause perl to choose the 'best' DBM format available to
> > # you. You can force it to use another format by setting $dbtype to
> > # NDBM_File, DB_File, GDBM_File, SDBM_File or ODBM_File
> > my $dbtype = 'AnyDBM_File';
>
> OK. I've installed Berkeley DB on my machine, and I'm trying to use it
> to see what happens. Just a note here: When I changed the above line in
> Radius/SessDBM.pm, I got errors from radiator saying that it could not
> tie using "AnyDBM_File.pm". I then discovered that in a number of places
> in SessDBM.pm, "AnyDBM_File.pm" was hardcoded, instead of using the
> $dbtype variable. Is this a bug?
>
Yup, 'fraid so :-(
I've sent Mike a patch that he will upload to the web site later today.
Thanks for pointing this out!
> I'm also including below the output from my system's perl -V. It seems
> to indicate that threading if off, but perhaps you can confirm for me:
>
> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris
> uname='sunos 5.7 s998_18 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 '
> hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
> usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
> Compiler:
> cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.8.1
> cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
> ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
> stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
> intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
> d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
> alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
> Linker and Libraries:
> ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
> libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
> libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
> Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
> cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Built under solaris
> Compiled at Oct 24 1998 01:11:27
> @INC:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/sun4-solaris
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
> .
Yes, it looks to me like threading is off, but I'll just check with Mike.
If you still have a problem with a different DBM library, would it be possible
for us to log in directly to have a look? Please contact me directly to discuss.
many thanks for your assistance
Hugh
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