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Re: [MacPerl] cgi problem

At 6:54 PM -0400 9/26/98, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 19.01 -0400 1998.09.26, Steven J. Stratford wrote:
>>I use 5.2.0r4 on my server and WebStar 3.0. I have a few MacPerl cgi's that
>>generally work fine, except that occasionally they run but don't quit, in
>>fact _won't_ quit, unless the machine is hard-rebooted. The "CGI Script"
>>extension I have is dated 1/19/97.
>
>You can likely force quit them.  Make the offending CGI the frontmost app,
>click on the CGI's window and hold down the mouse, and do
>option-command-escape.  Then click OK if it asks to force quit the CGI.  If
>it asks to force quit something else, say Cancel, and try again.

Problem is, I'm administering the server remotely via Timbuktu, and there's
not a way that I've found to force quit it remotely. Any click on the Quit
button is ignored. Any command to quit the application via the Process
Manager module on the control strip running on the server is ignored. I end
up using my Powerkey Pro remote restart to brute force cycle the power,
which is hard on things...

>
>
>>At first I suspected it was a problem in the programming of one of the
>>scripts, but then I noticed the same thing occasionally happening with the
>>other scripts, so I don't think it's programming. Anyone else seen that
>>behavior? Anyone have an idea where I should look to identify the problem?
>
>It often happens when MacPerl gets too busy to answer a given CGI, so the
>CGI hangs.

In this case, MacPerl cannot be too busy. These cgi's only get occasional
use, perhaps a couple of times a day max. I run an application called Pull
Process that forces WebStar to the front periodically to give it maximum
processor time, and I thought maybe the cgi was by chance getting
interrupted by that which was causing this strange state of affairs, but I
disabled Pull Process and it still happens.

--Steve

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