Re: Logging under CGI

2002-06-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Sam Tregar wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Tom Brown wrote: > > > ?? AFAIK, Files opened in append mode, and written to without buffering, > > should _not_ get corrupted in any manner that flock would prevent. > > (basically small writes should be

Re: newbie - installation problems

2002-04-18 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:57:52PM +0200, Carlo Giomini - tesista Federico wrote: > > > 2. If this risk exists, I should procede with the old installation BUT > > > what would I get at the end? Mod_perl statically built inside Apache? > > Build what you want and install it. I wouldn't worry about

Re: newbie - installation problems

2002-04-18 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:20:41PM +0200, Carlo Giomini - tesista Federico wrote: > I can't manage very well with Apache and mod_perl. I have made an > installation of mod_perl WITHOUT building a new httpd daemon (NO_HTTPD=1), > undergoing all the steps until the end (perl MAKEFILE_PL, make, make

Re: Sharing Variable Across Apache Children

2002-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
Is the webserver useful if you have an error that warrants sending a mail? If sending an email means the server is broken having a flood of mails may be a feature. It will be incentive to fix whatever is breaking your server/db. Also, I would strongly recommend keeping your warning system as simpl

RE: loss of shared memory in parent httpd

2002-03-14 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Bill Marrs wrote: > > >It's copy-on-write. The swap is a write-to-disk. > >There's no such thing as sharing memory between one process on disk(/swap) > >and another in memory. > > agreed. What's interesting is that if I turn swap off and back on again, what? doesn't se

Re: loss of shared memory in parent httpd

2002-03-12 Thread Tom Brown
> No, I can't explain the nitty gritty either. :-) > > Someone should write up a summary of this thread and ask in a > technical linux place, or maybe ask Dean Gaudet. I believe this is a linux/perl issue... stand alone daemons exhibit the same behaviour... e.g. if you've got a parent PERL daemo

Re: Urgent: Can we get compiled codes(class files in java) in perl like in java

2002-03-07 Thread Tom Brown
By 'compiled code ... just like that in Java' do you mean byte code? You may want to look at http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=864&node_id=76685 which I found by searching for 'compiled' at perlmonks.org. Your client is making a strange request. Most people put a higher value on source co

Re: Post processing Perl output through PHP

2001-07-15 Thread Tom Brown
better, someone has written a makerpm.pl script which will build a .spec file for an RPM, from which you can build .src.rpm or .i386.rpm files... there is a version out there that works with rpm4, I won't post the it here in the hopes that someone who is maintaining a version _will_ speak up... b

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-19 Thread Tom Brown
> > > > "mod_perl: 20 billion hits served" > > And turn the "m" into a stylized arch. :) > > LOL!! Way to go, Randal! > > Or how about a play on the old Superman line? > A graphic with O'Reilly's Eagle and a caption like > > "Look! Up on the net! It's a bird! It's a plane! > No, it'swait,

(changing userids/2.0/suexec) was: RE: security!

2001-03-01 Thread Tom Brown
> > > > > This is a general Unix webserver issue and not specific to > > > mod_perl, so I've marked your message [OT] for off-topic. > > > > Well, workarounds are available for specific webserver environments, so I > > don't believe it's an inappropriate question. > > > > With CGI, you use the

Re: trouble with path_info

2001-02-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Pierre Phaneuf wrote: > Pierre Phaneuf wrote: > > Does anyone has an idea about this? I think I have proper behavior from > my perl handler by installing it at the root of the server, but this is > no real solution! > > What I am doing wrong here??? > > > I'm really stumpe

Re: [OT] Apache wedges when log filesystem is full

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brown
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Andrew Ho wrote: > Hello, > > The other day we had a system fail because the partition that holds the > logs became full, and Apache stopped responding to requests. Deleting some > old log files in that partition solved the problem. > > We pipe logs to cronolog (http://www.

Re: fork inherits socket connection

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Brown
> > Yes, yes, yes it was a bad suggestion. Sorry about that. > I still didn't complete this section, looking for a clean solution to find > a way to close only the fd that keeps the socket busy. > So far you can use the closing fds in loop -- at least it works. yuck... you'd either have to find

Re: greetings and questions

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tom Brown wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ajit Deshpande wrote: > > > 2. The POD for Apache::Registry says that it doesn't like __END__ and > > > __DATA__ tokens. So what affect do these actually have if left in? Does > > In scripts? i

Re: greetings and questions

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ajit Deshpande wrote: > > 2. The POD for Apache::Registry says that it doesn't like __END__ and > > __DATA__ tokens. So what affect do these actually have if left in? Does In scripts? it's a syntax error, but that's a completely separate issue from modules which get used "a

Re: Certification

2000-12-07 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, J. J. Horner wrote: > > > If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable > > brain power on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I > > don't have much spare brain power and I could use it to try to f

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread Tom Brown
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ben Thompson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:32:41AM -0800, brian moseley wrote: > > > > if you really feel the need to compete with php in the > > lowest tier web app space, you need to make simplicity your > > #1 goal. php is awesome entry level technology, and i almost

Re: how to really bang on a script?

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brown
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, martin langhoff wrote: > Chris, > > i'd bet my head a few months ago someone announced an apache::bench > module, that would take a log and run it as a benchmarking secuence of > HTTP requests. just get to the list archives and start searching with I wrote a simple pe

Re: Apache::GzipChain

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brown
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > > > Is anybody using GzipChain? > > IIRC, Josh said he was. He didn't complain about it. Raved, in fact. > > > Is there some known means of verifying that it is in fact working properly? >

Re: Bug in mod_perl

2000-10-09 Thread Tom Brown
Interesting, the Mason bug report I just filed is obviously mis-filed. Apache::Registry scripts suffer the same behaviour. On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Try the following handler: > > package Foo; > > use Apache::Request; > > sub handler > { > my $r = shift; > > my (@va

Re: suexec: disabled?

2000-09-01 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Bakki Kudva wrote: > I recently upgraded to perl5.6 and added php4 to my apache server. I > don't know what I did wrong but I am getting the following errors. > If I do a httpd -l I get... > > suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec your copy of suexe

Re: Proxy setup w/ SSL (fwd)

2000-08-08 Thread Tom Brown
t request Conn Kilobytes transferred this connection ChildMegabytes transferred this child Slot Total megabytes transferred this slot Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:43:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Proxy s

Re: template kit.....

2000-07-29 Thread Tom Brown
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Denton River wrote: > > > Its been a long time since i have done a jobb without using sessions. I would > > really like to have this feature included in the kit im using and i think > > alot of developers are with me on this one. >

Re: Re: Re: redirecting a domain [OT]

2000-07-16 Thread Tom Brown
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Barry Hoggard wrote: > Nothing is wrong with that solution if you only have a few domains. > We own a lot of misspellings of our company name, so I don't want to > add each of them individually to the conf file. double that count... since you also nicely solved the proble

Re: Perl Registry ... Memory consumption.

2000-07-03 Thread Tom Brown
first off, David Hodgkinson's comments are correct... Stas's guide is very thorough, and covers pretty much all of this. On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to setup mod_perl in an Apache/Red Hat > Linux/mySQL environment for the last couple of weeks. >

Re: [RFC] Swapping Prevention

2000-06-20 Thread Tom Brown
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote: > > your machine. Therefore you should configure the server, so that the > > maximum number of possible processes will be small enough using the > > C directive. This will ensure that at the peak hours the > > system won't swap. Remember that swap space i

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Ime Smits wrote: > | Also, my system has cgiexec (does suid for CGI scripts) installed. The > | cgiexec documentation says that once cgiexec is installed, it is a > | security risk if people can execute code as "nobody" since that user has > | special access to the cgiexec co

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
> Also, my system has cgiexec (does suid for CGI scripts) installed. The > cgiexec documentation says that once cgiexec is installed, it is a > security risk if people can execute code as "nobody" since that user has > special access to the cgiexec code. Right now, anyone can execute code as > nob

Re: mod_perl virtual web hosting

2000-04-12 Thread Tom Brown
> > > >I'm reading between the lines here, but it sounds like you are trying to > >have _one_ parent apache daemon that services _everything_ on the machine > >(likely _more_ than one website), which would imply that you are going to > >have an _extremely_ low hit ratio on your mod_perl scripts. >

Re: mod_perl virtual web hosting

2000-04-12 Thread Tom Brown
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jesse Wolfe wrote: > I am working with www.superb.net to get their mod_perl up and working > again. They have great infrastrucure, lots of great tools, and an amazing > price. > They had apache/mod_perl for awhile, and upgrades broke it. I expect they > will have it in a wee

Re: mod_ssl in fronend-backend Apache configuration

2000-01-31 Thread Tom Brown
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, BeerBong wrote: > Hello all! > > I need encrypted access to some directories on some virtual hosts. > > I have lightweight proxy apache server and backend mod_perl server. > > mod_ssl is not a light thing, and I need encrypt mod_perl'd script results > only, therefore I th

Re: Problems with RedHat

1999-11-25 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Robert Locke wrote: > > I actually commented out the "exit" line below that and let it > continue as if there were no error. > > Then, when I ran "make", I discovered the actual error, which in my > case involved not having gdbm properly installed. here's the fix [root@qm

Re: extra '0' when printing to files other than STDOUT?

1999-10-05 Thread Tom Brown
On 5 Oct 1999, Chip Turner wrote: > Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > great ideas... I'm reading that man page now... It does match the symptom, > > but it's gotta be corruption or an external module that we didn't write, > > since I'

extra '0' when printing to files other than STDOUT?

1999-10-04 Thread Tom Brown
Anyone seen anything like this? running modperl 1.21 on linux with a work around for the corrupted PATH environment variable issue... perl 5.004_05 ... This code: open( MAIL, "| $MAILER" ) || die "can't open $MAILER"; print MAIL <<"EOM"; HELO localhost ONEX MAIL FROM: $from EOM foreach