Re: [OT] Better Linux server platform: Redhat or SuSe?

2002-07-04 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Nick Tonkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm confused. Since when did bloat surpass elegance as a measure of > success in Perl programming? Indeed. Generic question: "How many lines of code have you spent today?" -- Frank Cringle, [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (+49 7745) 928759; fax: 928761

Re: [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000 this year!

2001-03-09 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Bill Desjardins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just as a FYI about something that caught my attention recently. This year > on Saturday September 8, 2001, the unix time stamp flips to 1 billion and > gets another digit going from 9 to 10 digits. Not sure if anyone else but > me is using the timesta

Re: Memory leak hell...

2000-09-10 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now to the wierd bit. I could track this down if it wasn't for this: > > The memory leak starts after the Nth hit, usually around 35. This is > running under httpd -X. > > So it goes along very happily for 35 hits - memory usage is rock solid > stable.

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

2000-09-07 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Nicolas MONNET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Might be a faq, but why would open(FH,'|qmail-inject') fail with > fatal: read-error from within mod_perl? Are the files in /var/qmail/control world readable? Is QMAILMFTFILE defined in the environment and pointing to a file that the httpd process can

Re: Trouble compiling mod_perl 1.24 with Apache 1.3.12

2000-08-09 Thread Frank D. Cringle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for support questions. > > Then please put that e-mail address somewhere obvious on the > perl.apache.org website. Yours was the only one I could find. > (It was listed as [EMAIL PROT

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-29 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank D. Cringle) wrote: > > > >This sounds dreadfully microsoftian. Trashcan: check; Bouncing > >paperclip: check. > > Well yeah, if you choose features that nobody cares about, then nobody will &g

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ken Williams wrote: > > > > I suggest having not just a simple checkmark, but a 3-way check. A > > system either supports a feature, or it doesn't, or it *optionally* > > supports it (can be switched on and off). This is often very helpful to > > know,

Re: can't properly append to file from mod_perl script

2000-06-29 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "RE" == Rob Egan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RE> CGI scripts to behave in mod_perl. All it does is capture e-mail addresses, > RE> and place them in a text file so we can gather them up later and drop them > RE> into a database. If you run the s

Re: stripping CRLF on the way out?

2000-06-22 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Dave DeMaagd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have an application that generates nicely formatted HTML (from > templates, so that they can be easily edited), but since there's a > awful lot of extra line breaks (and other things, like comments) that > we'd like to strip out (save bandwidth), is there

Re: Is there are secret way to unsubscribe from this mailing list?

2000-05-01 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been sending email to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' almost > every day for the past week or two, but I still keep receiving email > from this list. The list is run using ezmlm. Sending mail to modperl-unsubscribe is just the first step in the process. You s

Re: PerlSendHeader

2000-04-29 Thread Frank D. Cringle
"Benjamin Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've turned off PerlSendHeader, but no matter what I do, it seems that I'm > already getting headers before I ever print anything. If you turn PerlSendHeader off, you are responsible for sending the headers yourself. In the Apache API, and mod_perl's

Re: I give up... I'm just going to follow the instructions....

2000-01-27 Thread Frank D. Cringle
John Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After fighting with RedHat SWS and never being sure if what went wrong > was my scripts' fault or some wierdness in my > Apache/mod_perl/RedHat-SSL, I'm going to follow the instructions in the > guide to make my own. (Would have saved a lot of time if I ju

Re: Perl 5 DBI link?

2000-01-25 Thread Frank D. Cringle
jiminy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS - this is my first time to post here. Most mailing lists I've seen have > as the reply-to the address of the list, however this one doesn't seem to > have that feature, so that when I just reply to a message, it does to the > poster, not the list. Am I perce

DSO SEGV fix (was: A fix in sight: Apache::ASP: crash when placed in startup.pl)

2000-01-16 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This worked! Can I get opinions on the attached patch? I am not competent to check whether the patch has any hidden problems, but I hope Doug will be able to evaluate it and include it in the next release. Your description of the sequence leading

Re: DSO slows things down?

2000-01-14 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just read the mod_ssl vs. apache_ssl thread at /.org: > http://slashdot.org/apache/99/12/22/1711203.shtml > > jimjag claims that DSO is slower than static builds at the runtime: > > > Q: Why has using DSOs anything to do with run-time performance? I alw

Re: how come httpd doesn't start even though startup.pl is fine? (fwd)

2000-01-14 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm :-( > > On 14 Jan 2000, Frank D. Cringle wrote: > > > > > Without having checked your list, I'll wager that the "good" modules > > are all pure perl and the "bad" ones use machine

Re: how come httpd doesn't start even though startup.pl is fine? (fwd)

2000-01-14 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > I don't know what's causing this, and there are no errors being logged in > my error_log. > > I'm running apache 1.3.9, mod_perl 1.21, linux 6.1 > > I have a startup.pl with a bunch of modules in it. If I run the startup.pl > by it

Re: Apache 1.3.9 + mod_perl 1.21 + Solaris 2.7 dumps core

2000-01-14 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ LD_PRELOAD='/home2/web/apache_1.3.9/libexec/libperl.so \ > /home1/software/perl/debug/lib/5.00503/sun4-solaris/CORE/libperl.so' > ./httpd > $ > > hey presto! A working httpd. Excellent! > Obviously this is just a workaround - the > real fix is to

Re: Apache 1.3.9 + mod_perl 1.21 + Solaris 2.7 dumps core

2000-01-13 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that the SEGV only happens when Apache/perl/modperl are dynamically > linked. Statically linked code behaves fine. I'm wondering if the > mod_perl code goes down a different code path if it is dlopen'd rather > than being statically linked. Apach

Re: mod_perl as a DSO and creating a developer environment questions

2000-01-05 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Jeff Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I've read the archives, and from what I can tell, mod_perl sometimes > works as a DSO, and other times doesn't. I've seen Frank Cringle say it > works, then later to link static. I've seen Doug say it should work. > I've seen other say it works, b

Re: Embperl [- -] annoyance

1999-11-09 Thread Frank D. Cringle
David Bushong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few times in the past months (I've been playing with Embperl a > lot, it's a hell of a lot more fun than JSP, straight CGI, or > HTML::Template), I have been trying to resist asking this, but it's no use: why ? [ I'm a recent convert to HTML::Templa

Re: Apache::DBI crashes apache-mod_ssl-1.3.9.2.4.6

1999-11-06 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Christof Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there must be someone (*) out there who has a working spec file for: > > Apache 1.3.9 > + shared mod_ssl-1.3.9.2.4.6 > + static mod_perl > + shared everything else > > it would be nice if it would also keep the file layout from redhat 6.0 > or 6.1 I

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-26 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Dave Mee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, mod_perloids. > > I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing > it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh > linux 5.2. > > the code is > > warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sen

Re: [SITE] the great redesign of 1999

1999-10-15 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My personal comment on both of your previews, is that they are very cool! > But while being flattered with having a Guide as part of the main menu, > this is unfair to other folks who wrote an invaluable documentation > (Vivek, Frank and other). For my p

Re: Mailing List Subject Headers

1999-10-08 Thread Frank D. Cringle
"Anthony Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure if I'm being a bit fussy here, or indeed banging my head > against a wall but can users of these mailing lists make the Subject part of > the msg more descriptive. > > This will help readers to scroll through quicker and to read what

Re: Guide addition?

1999-10-07 Thread Frank D. Cringle
"Andrei A. Voropaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it be possible to remove everything after __END__ before > wrapping it into a function? That requires a full-blown perl parser, to decide if __END__ is really __END__. print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n" print <

Re: CGI.pm not maintaing values..

1999-01-03 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Ofer Inbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Krohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (mis)handles lexically scoped variables. This oddity only comes into > play if you use a lexical variable in a block *and* a sub-block of > that block, and you run that same code multiple times, and the values > are