Re: MiniVend Crash on Digital Unix

[mikeh@minivend.com]

Quoting Bill (bill@webteam.net):
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Bill" <bill@webteam.net>     ******
> 
> I've located the cause of the crash.
> 
>     &$Sig_inc;
>     &$Sig_dec;
> 
> When commented out, MV runs fine.
> 
> Does anyone know what these do and why they are in the code?  Would it hurt
> to remove them?
> 

Yes. This causes the server count to be wrong, though you probably
won't see a problem on a lightly loaded server with a sufficiently
high value of MaxServers.....

Sounds for some reason that Digital UNIX in that version doesn't
support the USR1 and USR2 signals; or the Perl is configured with
the wrong includes. That is a defect I believe, since I can't believe
that they don't intend to support those. (I guess they aren't in
POSIX, so I can't complain about that.)

Try setting this in minivend.cfg instead:

	MaxServers   0

You absolutely must set PIDcheck if you do this!!!

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