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Re: Problem with Password page?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:24:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Well, I'll be darned...it's doing it to me too.
> > Thanks for reporting this... I'll get to the bottom of it and let you know
> > when it's fixed.
> 
> Brady,
> I've fixed the problem -- although unfortunately I don't understand exactly
> what was causing the hang-up.  It had to do with file locking rather than CPU
> consumption.  I changed the version of Perl (5.00503 instead of 5.6.1) that's
> being used for that script.  Either there's a bug in Perl 5.6.1 which is being
> triggered by something in my pw code (I wouldn't be surprised, since 5.6.1
> segfaulted all the time last month), or my pw code has some insidious bug
> somewhere that only shows up under 5.6.1 due to some esoteric Perl weirdness I
> don't understand.  We ran various flavors of Perl 5.004 at the old server
> (prior to last month) and all the code ran very happily on that for years.
> 
> In any event, please retry now.  I'm sorry you ran into this.  Thanks
> again for reporting the problem, and.....welcome!
> 
> --Todd

Success!!!  Thanks Todd!

Brady



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(...) Brady, I've fixed the problem -- although unfortunately I don't understand exactly what was causing the hang-up. It had to do with file locking rather than CPU consumption. I changed the version of Perl (5.00503 instead of 5.6.1) that's being (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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