Re: [Sheflug] money back

[Denis Nikitin <dnn [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 17:32, Alex Hudson wrote:

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> I wouldn't have thought you have much of a call there, to be honest,
> unless SUSE specifically state that they support the app you're trying
> to run. If, by "3rd party", you mean proprietary, there isn't really a
> huge amount that they would be able to do to fix things.
> 
Well, it's not really proprietary - it's WebObjects adaptor for apache.
Problem is that it's coming as a DIY source kit for Solaris and this is
only Unix version (apart from OSX) Apple is officially supporting.
It does compile (after a bit of tweaking) and runs OK on Linux - we've
been using it on Redhat for more then a year now. You can think of it as
of mod_perl like module.
> Is the "3rd party" software something well known? Does it say it
> supports SUSE 
No it doesn't. 
> If the app is dying with a segfault, then it's
> a bug in that app (well, 99% sure it's a bug in that app) and your
> problem is with the people who wrote it in the first place.

Yes, I agree on 99% - 1 % on Suse tuned apache so tight and strange that
'non-licensed'  soft doesn't work. Reminds me odd 'designed for ..' like
logo :)

> This probably doesn't help much tho' :/ I would think you could get the
> software running somehow though - anyone reasonably competent with
> GNU/Linux will be able to tell you exactly what the problem is, and if
> the software runs on Red Hat it probably won't be difficult to make it
> run on SUSE.
Thanks for support. Right now I am not so sure it's an easy problem to
fix. Stable segfault on different versions of Suse and apache doesn't
leave much room for optimism.
I'll try to look through the sources - if I would only have some spare
time to do this. 
Thanks.
Denis.


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