Re: [mv] MV4: expireall script gives error

[Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>]

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Mike Heins wrote:
> 
> I think it is definitely at least a deficiency. Your report caused
> me to remember I hadn't really updated the expire script for MV4 yet.
> 
> The default with MV4 is file-based sessions, not DBM, so expire is not
> really the same for that. (You can still use DBM/DBI sessions if you want,
> but it is not recommended.) You can expire with a cron job:

Thinks Mike. 

   I think my sessions got messed up with I crashed minivend with my
leaky perl code. The "basket" page came up with an internal server
error. The logs said:

>  [05/March/2000:20:04:30 -0500] market-dev /
> market.cgi/ord/basket.html Runtime error: execute error: ERROR:  parser: parse error at or > near ""

Deleting the my recent session files by hand corrected this, no worries.
:) I'm not reporting this as a "bug" since you can't really be
accountable for the strange behavior following a minivend crash, but I
thought you might want to know about the scenerio if you don't already. 

I also took your recommendation about DBI session storage. I wanted to
access my sessions through an external SQL application, so I implemented
my own SQL session storage scheme, also based on the minivend session
id. It's was a bit hokey to duplicate what minivend was already doing,
but it works for me. 

  -mark

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