Re: [mv] Fork and Hammer lock errors

[Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>]

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Thats a very good idea, the pgp thing. Yes that is the error with the
hammer lock. I will check out the pgp.

Hans-Joachim Leidinger wrote:
> 
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> 
> Patrick Schoonveld schrieb:
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******
> >
> > I run three different catalogs on one server. Two of them use CyberCash
> > to process credit cards.
> >
> > For some reason, whenever someone tries to submit their data for
> > processing, it gives an httpd "Internal Server Error" and the error log
> > for the site reads:
> > 216.120.166.5 AVQxTzys:216.120.166.5 - [27/April/2000:15:17:23 -0400]
> > blodgett /cgi-bin/catalog.cgi/process Runtime error: Couldn't fork:
> > Permission denied
> 
> Hmmm...problem with pgp?
> 
> -------Order.pm-----
> sub pgp_encrypt {
>         my($body, $key, $cmd) = @_;
>         $cmd = $Vend::Cfg->{PGP} unless $cmd;
>         if($key) {
>                 $cmd =~ s/%%/:~PERCENT~:/g;
>                 $cmd =~ s/%s/$key/g;
>                 $cmd =~ s/:~PERCENT~:/%/g;
>         }
>         my $fpre = $Vend::Cfg->{ScratchDir} . "/pgp.$$";
>         open(Vend::Order::PGP, "|$cmd >$fpre.out 2>$fpre.err")
>                         or die "Couldn't fork: $!";
>         print Vend::Order::PGP $body;
> -------Order.pm-----
> 
> -------ValidCC.pm----
>                 # Encrypt the string, but key on arg line will be exposed
>                 # to ps(1) for systems that allow it
>                 open(CRYPT, "$cmd |") || die "Couldn't fork: $!\n";
>                 chomp($encrypted = <CRYPT>);
>                 close CRYPT;
>                 $status = $?;
>         }
>         else {
>                 $cmd = "| $cmd " if $cmd;
>                 open(CRYPT, "$cmd>$tempfile ") || die "Couldn't fork: $!\n";
> -------ValidCC.pm----
> 
> 
> > Sometimes it also gives a hammerlock error, but I turned up the time it
> > waits for processing and that seems to have stopped. Does anyone have an
> > idea of how to solve this problem?
> 
> Or did you get a message like "Hammered session lock <lockname> left by
> PID <PID number>"?
> --------snipp--------
>                         if ( $left > $Global::HammerLock ) {
> --------snipp--------
> and
> --------snipp--------
>     ['HammerLock',               'integer',              30],
> --------snipp--------
> 
> >
> > Running MV3.14 on a FreeBSD3.4 server.
> > Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joachim
> 
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