Re: perl scripts suddenly failing

[Eben <eben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boyle Owen wrote:
>  
>
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eben [mailto:eben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:53 PM
> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re:  perl scripts suddenly failing
> >
> > I rebooted and that cleared up the problem, but do you think 
> > this could 
> > be an early warning sign of a failing drive?
> >     
>
> I doubt it very much - drives don't give early warnings they just
> suddenly die. But then again, they don't do that very often... 99.99% of
> problems are due to software so if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not
> zebras.
>   

Thanks for the advice, I'll do what you recommended, but don't zebras 
have hoofs as well ;) ?

> I mentioned file descriptors - look at how many logs files you have
> open, find out how to count the free Fds on mac os, etc...
>
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
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>   
> > Boyle Owen wrote:
> >     
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Eben [mailto:eben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:17 PM
> > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > 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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