list digest problems?

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Dunstan
has the digest software for the mod_perl list changed recently? Here's a sample of what I've been seeing for a couple of weeks at the top of the digest: cheers andrew Topics (messages 11320 through 11349): (null) 113

Job Opportunity - Atlanta

2000-10-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
heers Andrew Dunstan Senior Software Engineer AnyDevice Title: Software Developer Start Date: ASAP Job Description: Supporting the ASP model, this person would be responsible for remodeling web content for a variety of wireless devices. Req

[JOB OP] Perl progammer(s) - Atlanta, GA, USA

2000-10-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
heers Andrew Dunstan Senior Software Engineer AnyDevice Title: Software Developer Start Date: ASAP Job Description: Supporting the ASP model, this person would be responsible for remodeling web content for a variety of wireless devices. Req

Re: open(FH,'|qmail-inject') fails

2000-09-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Regarding cost of forking etc.: Your mileage will undoubtedly vary, according to OS and MTA. Last time I did work on this was about a year ago on Solaris 2.6, with sendmail and postfix. In both cases using Net::SMTP was far faster. IIRC, with postfix there is no forking cost at all,

Re: open(FH,'|qmail-inject') fails

2000-09-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Could someone please explain to me why everybody seems so intent on having a mod_perl handler fork in order to send mail? Why not just use the very common Net::SMTP package which just talks on an SMTP socket to whatever mailhost you have (localhost or other). There are other packages on CPAN

DBI connect_cached vs Apache::DBI

2000-06-20 Thread Andrew Dunstan
The DBI manpage says this: connect_cached is like connect, except that the database handle returned is also stored in a hash associated with the given parameters. If another call is made to connect_cached with the same parameter values, then the corresponding cached $dbh will be returned if it i

DSO mod_perl and preloading

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew Dunstan
All these tips and benchmarks on optimising mod_perl by preloading used modules/DBD-drivers etc. are great. However, I have seen warnings about preloading modules if mod_perl is loaded as a DSO. (e.g for HTML::Embperl). Does this still apply? My setup is redhat6.2/perl-5.6/mod_perl-1.23. TIA And