Re: [MacPerl] cgi problem

["Steven J. Stratford" <sstrat@stratfordenterprises.com>]

I'm responding to my own posting here, since there were no further comments
on the problem in the last couple of days.

Has anyone running a WebStar server seen the problem I described below and
found a way to work around it? Better yet, has anyone found a way to fix
it? I don't remember it happening when I was running MacOS 7.6, but I'm
running 8.1 on my server now. I wonder if there's a relationship--perhaps
the "CGI Script" extension needs updating for OS 8.1? I'm grasping at
straws, because I can't use MacPerl/CGI scripts as production CGI's as long
as they keep getting themselves into this un-quittable mode.

Thanks for any help you can give.

--Steve

>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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