Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Landrum
Tracy12 wrote: I tried to declare use vars qw( $SESSION_CLEANUP_COUNTER); and increment within the code doent seem to work, Shoud i increment this in a specific hanlder. You really need to heed the advice of the list and consider using the a cron job to expire old sessions. It's really not

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Jan 21, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Tracy12 wrote: If have a Authentication handler written in perl, How can count the no of times it has been accessed by clients, (Some think like no of hits . Counter). Is there a specific handler to do this ? I tried to declare use vars qw( $SESSION_CLEANUP_

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-21 Thread Tracy12
If have a Authentication handler written in perl, How can count the no of times it has been accessed by clients, (Some think like no of hits . Counter). Is there a specific handler to do this ? I tried to declare use vars qw( $SESSION_CLEANUP_COUNTER); and increment within the code doent seem

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-18 Thread Tracy12
I introduced a use vars qw( $SESSION_CLEANUP_COUNTER); also having if not defined value =0, and $SESSION_CLEANUP_COUNTER When it reaches the threshold do the cleanup, but it always go to the undefined clause and return zero, had use vars qw been deprecated? Tracy12 wrote: > > I have a

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-18 Thread Tracy12
I have a general understanding about cleanup handler But what is meant by the global timestamp and cleaning up in every 15 minutes, Programatically How can we achieve it Are u refereing to a global variable Jonathan Vanasco-3 wrote: > >>> Which part of the perl auth handler should do this

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-18 Thread Rhesa
Tracy12 wrote: Looks like cron job will do, but is there any docs to write such a script. See CGI::Session::ExpireSessions (http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI%3A%3ASession%3A%3AExpireSessions) for a complete solution). HTH, Rhesa

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-18 Thread Tracy12
Looks like cron job will do, but is there any docs to write such a script. Meantime I found a sample as follows, as I am not having any DSN but only a folder /tmp to store session data will this work or how this can be modified #!/usr/bin/perl use constant DSN=> 'driver:file'; use co

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
Which part of the perl auth handler should do this cleanup Just to add though -- if you really want to do a cleanup within MP, use the cleanup handler which works after the client connection is terminated. also try setting a global timestamp so you only do the cleanup code once every 15 m

Re: mod_perl best practices cleanup

2007-01-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Jan 18, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Tracy12 wrote: We decided to keep the session data on LAN (file). As there will be new file created for each Session, We just wanted to know how to cleanup this folder, basically to clean all the expired sessions. Which part of the perl auth handler should do