Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:07:24 -0500
Reply-To: "David L. Ward" <dward@SASHELP.COM>
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From: "David L. Ward" <dward@SASHELP.COM>
Subject: Re: David Ward
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As per the questions about sashelp.com or internext-inc.com, The server was
down part of yesterday and last night. Some of you might be interested in
the story...
My server runs Win NT, ActivePerl, and Apache (among other things), with SAS
Server Pages (www.internext-inc.com/software/ssp) and Apache running as a
service. I decided to upgrade to
the newest versions of both Perl and Apache, for various reasons. Apache
worked flawlessly, and added some new functionality to my server. Perl, on
the other hand, caused havoc. It seems that after I installed the new
version of Perl (ActivePerl 5.6) that I was no longer able to run SSP.
After enough users requested a page, there was an internal fault loading a
WinNT dll that occurred with each page load and caused the Perl script to
time out. I tried fixing it all week, but finally decided to rebuild the
server, which meant I needed to physically relocate it for an evening, and
work on it most of the night.
The moral of my story is two-fold: Be careful of free software and make sure
you have a good reason to and are informed about upgrading software.
If anyone experiences errors or problems with any of the websites just let
me know. Thanks!
David Ward
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President
InterNext, Inc.
http://www.internext-inc.com
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