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[Slashcode-development] Odd problem found after upgrade to T2_3_0_85

[<Vl...@ge...>]

Hello all.

  We're using T2_3_0_85, and have noticed a small problem upon
installation - doing an apachectl configtest results in the following
warnings - is this something to be worried about?  I see this kind of
warning all the time when recompiling the Linux Kernel, and I usually just
ignore them there - is it safe to ignore these, or is it indicative of a
real problem?

su-2.05a# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest
Subroutine modify_entry redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 781.
Subroutine add_entry redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 804.
Subroutine delete_entry redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 829.
Subroutine get_entry redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 838.
Subroutine get_entries redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 857.
Subroutine get_uid_from_nickname redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 884.
Subroutine _save_params redefined at
/usr/local/slash/site/www.arch-ware.com/htdocs/journal.pl line 889.

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[Slashcode-development] determining section

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

What's the precident for determining a user's section?

If I hit somesite.com, generally you'd do something like this:

my $section = $reader->getSection($form->{section});

and you'd get section='index', for the most part.

And if a site has sections setup that have their own tld, then if you hit 

mysection.somesite.com 

you'd get the section  'mysection'.

Yet, if you specify on the command line 

mysection.somesite.com?section=othersection

then the section's actually set to 'othersection'.

(see it in action: http://ask.slashdot.org/?section=science )

So therefore, anytime the section is specified via a http query param it takes 
precidence?

I still don't understand where $user->{currentSection} and $user->{mode} come 
in, but that may not relate directly to this msg.

If this is the case, where specifying ?section=blah overrides, why do we let 
it override? It doesn't seem like we should let it override, ever. So what am 
I overlooking?

Thanks,
 Shane

Re: [Slashcode-development] caching vs updating templates

[Randall H. <li...@so...>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:16:54 -0600
"Howell, Mark" <ho...@ra...> wrote:

> each httpd process contains it's own local cache of templates.
> 'killall -HUP httpd'

Sweet - that's exactly what I needed.  Thanks!

Randall

RE: [Slashcode-development] caching vs updating templates

[Howell, M. <ho...@ra...>]

Hello Randall,

From what I know (or think I know), each httpd process contains it's own
local cache of templates.  You can force a refresh on un*x systems with a
simple 'killall -HUP httpd' command.  This sends a HUP signal to all httpd
processes which causes them to refresh their cache and vars (constants).

The failed template lookup comes from one process loading a fresh copy of a
template that references a new template (that you just created) that it
doesn't yet have in it's cache.  A simple killall -HUP will fix this.

Good luck,
-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Hansen [mailto:li...@so...]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 7:55 PM
To: sla...@so...
Subject: [Slashcode-development] caching vs updating templates


Folks ~

I've been doing plugin development and I'm having trouble with what appears
to be Slash's template caching.  I've tried this in several browsers (Moz,
Konq, Lynx) with identical results.

When I make a change to a template, often the site doesn't update.  Say I
remove some text or a button from a template.  Template-tool updates the
template successfully, the changes appear correct in the Admin interface,
but when I browse the page they don't always appear.  I say "always"
advisedly, because sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.  I can hit
the browser's "Refresh" 10 times and get 3 different versions of the page,
even after clearing the browser cache.

The second weird thing that happens is that sometimes Slash doesn't find the
template at all.  Here's a sample line from the site's error log:

[Tue Mar 18 01:37:55 2003] [error]
/n4n4.pl:Slash::Display::Provider:/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Display/Pr
ovider.pm:81:Failed template lookup on
'edit_org;n4n4[misc];default[default]', callers: Slash::Display line 228,
Apache::ROOTrancid::n4n4_2epl line 66, Apache::ROOTrancid::n4n4_2epl line 43

This happens although every tool I can use (the Admin interface,
template-tool, querying the database directly) shows me the template just as
it should be.  It often happens after I update a template.

I've managed to avoid these errors somewhat (but not completely) by setting
'cache_enabled' to 0, but I've not spent enough time in the code to
understand exactly how caching works.  Is this behavior expected, or
abnormal?  Does anyone have any help, or pointers to other resources?

Thanks muchly,

Randall


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[Slashcode-development] caching vs updating templates

[Randall H. <li...@so...>]

Folks ~

I've been doing plugin development and I'm having trouble with what appears to be Slash's template caching.  I've tried this in several browsers (Moz, Konq, Lynx) with identical results.

When I make a change to a template, often the site doesn't update.  Say I remove some text or a button from a template.  Template-tool updates the template successfully, the changes appear correct in the Admin interface, but when I browse the page they don't always appear.  I say "always" advisedly, because sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.  I can hit the browser's "Refresh" 10 times and get 3 different versions of the page, even after clearing the browser cache.

The second weird thing that happens is that sometimes Slash doesn't find the template at all.  Here's a sample line from the site's error log:

[Tue Mar 18 01:37:55 2003] [error] /n4n4.pl:Slash::Display::Provider:/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Slash/Display/Provider.pm:81:Failed template lookup on 'edit_org;n4n4[misc];default[default]', callers: Slash::Display line 228, Apache::ROOTrancid::n4n4_2epl line 66, Apache::ROOTrancid::n4n4_2epl line 43

This happens although every tool I can use (the Admin interface, template-tool, querying the database directly) shows me the template just as it should be.  It often happens after I update a template.

I've managed to avoid these errors somewhat (but not completely) by setting 'cache_enabled' to 0, but I've not spent enough time in the code to understand exactly how caching works.  Is this behavior expected, or abnormal?  Does anyone have any help, or pointers to other resources?

Thanks muchly,

Randall

RE: [Slashcode-development] Enabling Journal searching

[Howell, M. <ho...@ra...>]

I'm sorry I didn't realize that the Search plugin that ships with Fry was
1.5 years old.  I grabbed a more recent version, changed a few things (like
url aliasing in Slash::Apache::User) and it appears to be working fine.

Thanks,
-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Aker [mailto:br...@ta...]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 2:37 PM
To: Howell, Mark
Cc: 'sla...@li...'
Subject: Re: [Slashcode-development] Enabling Journal searching


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:32, Howell, Mark wrote:
> Journals.  When I dig around the code, I find places where code exists to
> search journals (e.g. in Search plugin), but with strong warnings not to
That is a very old warning, we have had journal searches for a long time
now.
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RE: [Slashcode-development] Enabling Journal searching

[Howell, M. <ho...@ra...>]

From: Brian Aker [mailto:br...@ta...] On: Monday, March 10, 2003 2:37
PM
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:32, Howell, Mark wrote:
> > Journals.  When I dig around the code, I find places where code exists
to
> > search journals (e.g. in Search plugin), but with strong warnings not to
> That is a very old warning, we have had journal searches for a long time
> now.
>	-Brian

I've bypassed (ignored) the warnings as per your suggestion, and now I'm
trying to get the code to work.  For some reason, when I run a query that
searches the journals table from within Slashcode, it finds nothing, but
running it from the MySQL interpreter, finds several records.  I tried
changing the code in Search.pm to use the more standard-looking
Slash::DB::Utility sqlSelectArrayRef(..) method, but I get similar (empty)
results.  No error is logged.

It doesn't seem to matter whether I'm using a different search_db_user or
not.  Is there something that I should be aware of that the DBIx::Password
may be doing differently than the MySQL interepreter?  I can connect using
the mysql client as the same user that Slash uses, and get positive results.

Other forms of search query (Stories) appear to work fine.  Journals seem to
be the only one that returns nil.

Bizarre.

-Mark

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Enabling Journal searching

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:32, Howell, Mark wrote:
> Journals.  When I dig around the code, I find places where code exists to
> search journals (e.g. in Search plugin), but with strong warnings not to
That is a very old warning, we have had journal searches for a long time
now.
	-Brian
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[Slashcode-development] Enabling Journal searching

[Howell, M. <ho...@ra...>]

Hello all,

I've been developing a heavily customized slash (2.2.6) site the past few
months.  I've been tasked with enabling the search feature to include
Journals.  When I dig around the code, I find places where code exists to
search journals (e.g. in Search plugin), but with strong warnings not to
enable it.  Is there anything that I should be cautious of before attempting
to enable this?  When I attempt to run the forbidden function
(search.pl#findJournalEntry(..)), no results ever return.  I have made sure
that the search string exists in a journal entry, as the subject and even in
comments, but still cannot be found by search.pl.

When I dump the actual SQL code to see what's going on, I see some non-ANSI
looking MATCH statements.  Is this some MySQL proprietary thing (like for
fulltext searching)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Mark
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Broken plugins

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:16, Bruce Fuda wrote:
> >From what I've seen, problems seem to exist with the Email plugin, DiscussionEditor, Menu Editor (so I've heard), and I'm experiencing difficulty with the Events plugin as well.
> Can anyone fill me in? I plan on creating a new slashsite very soon, and if any of these things are going to be repaired, I'll hold off a bit before I do it - I would trust the abilities of most of you guys over mine.
I believe Events is just missing a template right now. Email needs to be
completed (and we will do it sooner or later because it is needed).

	-Brian
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[Slashcode-development] Broken plugins

[Bruce F. <Bru...@an...>]

I've heard that there was discussion recently about which plugins are =
currently broken, and I was curious to find out which ones people were =
planning to redevelop/fix.

From what I've seen, problems seem to exist with the Email plugin, =
DiscussionEditor, Menu Editor (so I've heard), and I'm experiencing =
difficulty with the Events plugin as well.

Can anyone fill me in? I plan on creating a new slashsite very soon, and =
if any of these things are going to be repaired, I'll hold off a bit =
before I do it - I would trust the abilities of most of you guys over =
mine.

Bruceo

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[Slashcode-development] $form->{'query_apache'}

[James M. <jm...@tr...>]

Hi, 

As a follow up to a question I asked and hackishly solved a few years
ago about uploading a file, I am planning on using
$form->{'query_apache'}, in order to upload files.  Can I rely on this
element to remain in getCurrentForm?  Otherwise I will need to split off an
instance of apache::request prior to calling createenvironment, but
even then, according to the Apache::Request documentation, it isn't so
safe to parse a file with an instance.

Anyway, example code follows (different from the similar code in Admin.pl).  

...
my $form = getCurrentForm();
my $apr = $form->{'query_apache'};
my $upload = $apr->upload;
my $loaded;
if($upload){
    $loaded = { type => $upload->type,
	        name => $upload->name,
		filename => $upload->filename,
		fh => $upload->fh,
		size => $upload->size,
	    };
#debug
#    print Dumper($loaded);
    my $filename = $loaded->{'filename'};
    local *BLOB;
    if (! (-d "temp") ){
	if (! (mkdir("temp",0744) )) {
	    carp ("can't make temp  \n"); 
	}
    }
    if( -e "temp/$filename" ){
	unlink "temp/$filename";
    }
    $upload->link("temp/$filename") or
	die sprintf "link from '%s' failed: $!", $upload->tempname;
   # prove it works by echoing
   if($loaded->{'type'} =~ /text/){
	print "<BR><CODE>";
	open(BLOB, "<temp/$filename");
	while (<BLOB>) {
	    print  "$_ <BR>";
	}
	close BLOB;
	print "</CODE>";
    } elsif ( $loaded->{'type'} =~ /image/){
	print "<BR><img src='http:$constants->{'rootdir'}/temp/$filename'>";
    } 
    # other handlers as needed.
}

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[Slashcode-development] Slash and NIS/PAM

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

     Hi, newbie here.

     Are there any plans to add an alternate login capability to Slash,
like PAM or NIS hooks?  I'd really like my users to be able to user
their NIS logins if possible.  This is a local site.  Externally
addable accounts aren't an issue.  

     Thank you.

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[i18n <i1...@ya...>]

I don't think there was much coding involved at all - I think I just copied the original form for sign up, trimmed out what I didn't want, and added a check box for the list sign up. I probably copied the perl code from the user info page where you usually sign up for the list to the place where the user sign up action happens - I guess it just does a simple SQL statement in the user info. It was a long time ago and it might be a while before I can dig up the details but I don't think it is much more than a few cut and pastes. Maybe I put it in a new perl file, maybe not I don't recall - if my form ACTION line has a strange name, then I guess I made a new one, otherwise I modified the existing one a bit.

Barry

At 05:32 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Barry, that's very slick and exactly the type of thing I was looking for!  I like it because it solves the buried newsletter problem and gets people to sign up right off the front page.
>
>Was there much coding involved?  I'd love to add something like that to my health news site and if you are able to save me the time of coding it up I would really appreciate it.  Thanks!
>
>i18n wrote:
>
>>see www.i18n.com - you sign up for the newsletter (stories only on my site) by opting in when you do a quick sign up. Probably my readers don't even know the difference for the most part - if yours would, that is fine too. 
>>As you can see, all you have to do (from the front page if you are not already logged in) is enter your email address, leave the box checked, and press the button. That gets you a subscription and a membership. I maintain that it is impossible to get simpler than that.
>>
>>Barry
>>
>>At 03:34 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> 
>>
>>>Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[i18n <i1...@ya...>]

see www.i18n.com - you sign up for the newsletter (stories only on my site) by opting in when you do a quick sign up. Probably my readers don't even know the difference for the most part - if yours would, that is fine too. 

As you can see, all you have to do (from the front page if you are not already logged in) is enter your email address, leave the box checked, and press the button. That gets you a subscription and a membership. I maintain that it is impossible to get simpler than that.

Barry

At 03:34 PM 1/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.
>
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Tuesday 07 January 2003 15:34, Marc Murphy wrote:
> Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the
> newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the
> subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to
> know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.

If you look at the latest Rtag of the CVS tree, the new user page has 
checkboxes for 

Replies to my comments will be mailed to me
Send me the newsletter
Send me the daily headlines

(hit http://fry.lottadot.com/users.pl?op=newuserform 
to see it, that's my test-box).

Is that what you are looking for? An easier method for them to subscribe? 
The checkboxes seemed like a pretty damned good idea to me.

I don't think it's possible to let them subscribe w/o a valid user account in 
the website itself.

 Shane

[Slashcode-development] Quick Subscribe to E-mail Newsletter?

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

Does anyone have something where the users can quickly subscribe to the 
newsletter, perhaps without even registering first?  Right now the 
subscription process is buried in the Messages screen and I wanted to 
know if anyone had done anything to make it easier to subscribe.  Thanks.

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Sections topics and subsections

[i18n <i1...@ya...>]

Shane -

on i18n.com I am using topics as pseudo sub-sections. You can see what I mean from the left side menu box. I an not thrilled with it. I am still running 2.x because I don't have time to upgrade and refit the software mods I made but I am thinning about quick & dirty ways to address the confusion of topics and sections - one idea I had was to use mond_rewrite to create simpler URLs for all the long ones with search.pl in them. I am open to other suggestions as this probably won't happen for a while anyway.

Barry


At 10:25 PM 1/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Even though I've been messing with slash for quite some time now, I *still* 
>can confuse myself when thinking about topics and sections. Whenever I have 
>to setup a slash site, I have to force myself to sit down and map out the 
>topic and section relationship to make sure the way it's being setup makes 
>sense for the current moment, and hopefully the future.
>
>Anyway, now cometh the sub sections!!
>
>Has anyone written anything describing how these things work or are intended 
>to be used?
>Examples of common section/topic/subsection layout, or even an example of some 
>fictitious entity needing X and using slash setup with Y to do it would be 
>fantastic. Has anyone written anything like this?
>
>Thanks,
> Shane
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[Slashcode-development] Sections topics and subsections

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

Even though I've been messing with slash for quite some time now, I *still* 
can confuse myself when thinking about topics and sections. Whenever I have 
to setup a slash site, I have to force myself to sit down and map out the 
topic and section relationship to make sure the way it's being setup makes 
sense for the current moment, and hopefully the future.

Anyway, now cometh the sub sections!!

Has anyone written anything describing how these things work or are intended 
to be used?
Examples of common section/topic/subsection layout, or even an example of some 
fictitious entity needing X and using slash setup with Y to do it would be 
fantastic. Has anyone written anything like this?

Thanks,
 Shane

[Slashcode-development] Journal Bug - cannot add friend who has grepage setting

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

The fix is easy.  greypage(53) template uses op=add for the add friend 
link and that doesn't work.  op=addmeta does and that's what all the 
other templates use.

Re: [Slashcode-development] perl malloc() recursive call

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

I've written a little forking program as an experiment.

I've commented the code changes made.  Not much other than a couple of 
new variables and the forking code.  Here is a snippet of what the new 
function looks like.  Everything below 'end new code' stays the same.

However, with the broken $data=`$exec` command seems to go off into it's 
own little world, but at least the overall slashd process seems to be 
running smoothly.  Before I think it was never returning and holding 
things up.  Now it's never returning and not messing things up.  I'll 
have to do more reading to make sure the spawned process is successfully 
ended.  This kind of fix isn't my ideal solution.  I really think it's 
either a Perl or system thing, but I could be wrong.

I can kill the slashd processes that go off into their own little world 
and the parent slashd process continues humming along.  

The real issue here is why does the backtick call $data=`$exec` never 
return?  

sub prog2file {
       my($command, $arguments, $f, $verbosity, $handle_err) = @_;
       return 0 unless -e $command and -r _ and -x _;
       $verbosity ||= 0;
       $handle_err ||= 0;
       my $success = 0;
       my $err_str = "";

       my $exec = "$command $arguments";
       my($data, $err);

       my($pid, @output); #added by Marc

       # Two ways of handling data from child programs yet we maintain
       # backwards compatibility.
       if (! $handle_err) {
       # commented out by marc $data = `$exec`;
# begin new code
               die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined ($pid = 
open(SAFE_KID, "|-"));
               if ($pid == 0) {
                 $data = `$exec` or die "can't exec prog2file call: $!";
               } else {
                 @output = <SAFE_KID>;
                 close SAFE_KID;                 # $? contains status
               }
# end new code

Re: [Slashcode-development] perl malloc() recursive call

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

I am not convinced the two problems are the same.  One is something hanging
(probably in the called program, article.pl), the other is apparently
something going wrong in the caller (slashd) that causes memory problems.
If article.pl were the problem, slashd would not die from malloc problems.

If freshenup.pl is hanging, not article.pl, well, that's another story.

Anyway, one thing I might try if I felt up to it is recompiling my perl
with perl's malloc, to see if that helps.  Sometimes system mallocs don't
work well with perl.  But this requires some research (looking into other
people's notes on your system's malloc with perl), and some work
(recompiling perl and mod_perl).

I'd also try adding print statements all the way through the code to see
exactly where it is hanging.  A previous poster said it was "print $out
unless $opt->{Return}" ... that would be an odd place to hang, unless
STDOUT were blocking or something weird.

Barring that, I am not sure what the problem is.  All I know is I don't see
the problem on our systems.  :-)

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Perl -V info related to freshenup.pl hanging problem

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

OK, now this one is from my home system.  Which also has the problem 
when freshenup.pl tries to do a new article, except there is no perl 
malloc() message.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18-11smp, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux daffy.perf.redhat.com 2.4.18-11smp #1 smp thu aug 15 
06:41:59 edt 2002 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 
-Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red 
Hat, Inc. -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux 
-Dvendorprefix=/usr
-Dsiteprefix=/usr -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads 
-Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db
-Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio 
-Dinstallusrbinperl -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less 
-isr'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define 
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing 
-I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 
3.2-5)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.92.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.2.92'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic 
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES 
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Sep  1 2002 23:56:49
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl

Here is what slashd.log looks like at the time of the hang:

Wed Dec  4 20:20:46 2002 Starting slashd with pid 9361
Wed Dec  4 20:20:46 2002 Starting up Slashd (verbosity 2) with pid 9361
Wed Dec  4 20:20:46 2002 processed 
/usr/local/slash/site/24.42.25.41/tasks; 19 successful
(adminmail.pl daily.pl daily_archive.pl daily_forget.pl expire.pl 
flush_formkeys.pl freshenup.pl message_delete.pl message_delivery.pl 
new_headfoot.pl new_motd.pl open_backend.pl p2f_cheesy.pl 
p2f_hof_topics.pl refresh_authors_cache.pl run_moderatord.pl 
run_portald.pl set_recent_topics.pl spamarmor.pl); 0 failed
Wed Dec  4 20:20:46 2002 first task will be freshenup.pl in 0 secs
Wed Dec  4 20:20:46 2002 freshenup.pl begin
Wed Dec  4 20:20:46 2002 freshenup.pl end (0.00s; new_headfoot.pl in 0s)
Wed Dec  4 20:20:48 2002 new_headfoot.pl begin
Wed Dec  4 20:20:50 2002 new_headfoot.pl end (2.01s; 
set_recent_topics.pl 4s late)
Wed Dec  4 20:20:52 2002 set_recent_topics.pl begin
Wed Dec  4 20:20:52 2002 set_recent_topics.pl end (0.01s; freshenup.pl 
in 68s)
Wed Dec  4 20:22:00 2002 freshenup.pl begin
Wed Dec  4 20:22:00 2002 Updating 02/12/04/2021249
Wed Dec  4 20:22:02 2002 article.pl virtual_user=virtslash ssi=yes 
sid='02/12/04/2021249'
section='articles' bytes=10627
Wed Dec  4 20:22:02 2002 freshenup.pl updated articles:02/12/04/2021249 
(testx)

And that's as far as it goes.


Chris Nandor wrote:

>Can you provide the perl -V from the other box, plus any merror messages it
>produced?
>
>  
>

Re: [Slashcode-development] Perl -V info related to freshenup.pl hanging problem

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

Can you provide the perl -V from the other box, plus any merror messages it
produced?

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Chris Nandor                      pu...@po...    http://pudge.net/
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[Slashcode-development] Perl -V info related to freshenup.pl hanging problem

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

It seems that freshenup.pl runs and when there are new articles, it 
calls prog2file.  Prog2file found in System.pm executes something like 
'index.pl virtual_user=virtslash ssi=yes' using $data=`$exec`.  It seems 
that the child process works but doesn't return and this hangs 
everything.  If a print statement is put after the prog2file call it 
doesn't hang every time, but it isn't a fix.  

It seems to be some kind of perl/system quirk with child processes.


Pudge, as requested:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.5-release, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd www 4.5-release freebsd 4.5-release #0: fri may 3 
00:26:26 pd
t 2002 us...@ja...:usrsrcsyscompile6300 i386 '
    config_args='-de'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef 
usemultiplicity=unde
f
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]', 
gccosandvers
=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize
=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared  -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at May 27 2002 22:41:53
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl