Re: perl scripts suddenly failing

Eben <eben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:52:52 -0400

I rebooted and that cleared up the problem, but do you think this could 

be an early warning sign of a failing drive?

Boyle Owen wrote:

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From: Eben [mailto:eben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 

Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:17 PM

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Subject:  perl scripts suddenly failing

Hello,

In the last few days, existing cgi scripts that had been 

working fine, 

now fail with an apache 500 error.  The exact error getting logged by 

apache is:

[Wed Apr  4 12:01:47 2007] [error] [client 71.233.250.53] 

(35)Resource 

temporarily unavailable: couldn't spawn child process: 

/home/user/cgi-bin/test.cgi

test.cgi is a simple hello world perl script.  In the apache conf for 

the site I have:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/cgi-bin/
       <Directory /home/user/cgi-bin>
               AllowOverride None
               Options None
               Order allow,deny
               Allow from all
       </Directory>

"which perl" shows /usr/bin/perl

This is running on Mac OSX 10.3.9 on a G5 xserve with the latest 

Not too familiar with Mac Os but I believe it's now based on FreeBSD...
Anyway, it seems to be having some resource limitation problem (file
descriptors is one of the Usual Suspects). The simplest thing to try to
get going again would be a reboot. Then check system logs and try a
MacOs forum/consultant...

Rgds,
Owen Boyle

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updates.  Any suggestions for further troubleshooting or 

solutions are 

appreciated

thanks,
Eben

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