Hi All, I've successfully written quite an big perl server using IO::Socket::INET - it seems to be working pretty darn good and so far I'm happy.
I'm attempting now to do the same but by using SSL. I've read up on IO::Socket::SSL, and I know that there are minor changes required in terms of how the socket is created. I've made those changes, my socket is successfully created, but when I connect, the server is unable to fork... The error is blank as well - which is of course helping me allot to determine what is going wrong... Can someone possibly shed some light for me on this? Here's the socket and forking code: # Open socket and listen for new connections my $Port563 = IO::Socket::SSL->new(LocalAddr => "198.19.255.11", LocalPort => "563", Proto => "TCP", Reuse => 1, Listen => 128, SSL_cert_file => "/srv/nntp/etc/cert.pem", SSL_key_file => "/srv/nntp/etc/key.pem", SSL_verify_mode => 0x01); if (!$Port563) { SysLog('err', 'Server failed to start: ' . $@); die "Failed to create listening socket: " . $@ . "\n"; } else { binmode $Port563 => ":encoding(utf8)"; SysLog('info', 'Server started: ' . $Port563->sockhost() . ':' . $Port563->sockport()); } # Drop privileges to normal user drop_privileges('news'); # Wait for client connection and spawn new child while (my $ClientSocket = $Port563->accept()) { my $Child; SysLog('err', 'Server failed to fork: ' . $!); die "Can't fork: $!" unless defined ($Child = fork()); # Script errors here. $! contains empty string if ($Child == 0) { $Port563->close; &ClientConnection($ClientSocket); undef $Childs{$Child}; exit 0; } else { $Childs{$Child} = 1; $ClientSocket->close(); } } -- Chris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/