Re: My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-14 Thread John W. Krahn
jmrhide-p...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, and thanks for volunteering to help! I installed the following script last year and it seemed to be working fine. Yesterday, however, my hosting service took down my site because the script was tying up so much of their server resources that it was a threat to

Re: My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Scott
Set up some test harnesses to run from the command line so you can see how your script behaves without having to run it through a web server. Since it gets its input from a cookie, set the environment variable HTTP_COOKIE to each test value in turn and execute the script. (You'll get a mess o

Re: My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Anderson
Just checked on my machine, looks like it produces a floating point number between 0 and 1. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-13, at 8:07 PM, Jim Gibson wrote: > > (I am not sure exactly what rand(0) returns). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additi

Re: My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Dixon
On 13/09/2012 23:42, jmrhide-p...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I installed the following script last year and it seemed to be working fine. > Yesterday, however, my hosting service took down my site because the script > was > tying up so much of their server resources that it was a threat to their > busi

Re: My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-13 Thread Jim Gibson
On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:42 PM, jmrhide-p...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, and thanks for volunteering to help! > > > I installed the following script last year and it seemed to be working fine. > Yesterday, however, my hosting service took down my site because the script > was > tying up so much of t

My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-13 Thread jmrhide-perl
Hi, and thanks for volunteering to help! I installed the following script last year and it seemed to be working fine. Yesterday, however, my hosting service took down my site because the script was tying up so much of their server resources that it was a threat to their business. One of the fo