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Re: Packaging mod_accel?



On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 06:04:07PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> At 10:17 Uhr -0400 09.06.2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> >On 2002.06.04 16:52 Christian Jaeger wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I would like to run Debian's apache and apache-perl packages for 
> >>this configuration.
> >
> >You may want to consider using apache and libapache-mod-perl 
> >instead.  It provides the mod_perl functionality as a DSO (Dynamic 
> >Shared Object), instead of being compliled directly into the server.
> 
> Well for a long time mod_perl has been known to be less stable as 
> .so; it's also quite convenient to have the two packages in parallel 
> since it's config and sysv init files are naturally kept separate 
> this way.

I haven't had reports of a crash in over a year, except for one that
only occured in the static version.  It does leak a little memory,
though.

> In the meantime I've made a new patch for libmm support in the apache 
> package. It also supports apache being started as non-root user, 
> unlike an earlier attempt by David Kilzer (sending him a CC), which 
> was considered harmful because of this 
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2002/debian-apache-200202/msg00007.html)). 
> Please tell me if there's any interest (it would probably even be useful 
> without mod_accel, since mod_ssl can make use of it too).

I'd like to see how you did this.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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