For what it's worth, the new verion of the XML::Parser module appears to segfault. Works fine outside mod_perl from what I can see, but segfaults the Apache child within. This is using it with XML::RSS on: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/3.0.16 mod_perl/1.24 mod_ssl/2.6.2 OpenSSL/0.9.5a Linux dijkstra 2.2.12-20 #1 Wed Apr 12 15:43:14 EST 2000 i686 unknown Downgrading to 2.29 fixed the problem. cheers, -- iain truskett, aka Koschei. <http://eh.org/~koschei/> The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. ---James McCosh