So you know how letting Isaac experiment on your server can be bad? ...
If I executed a python script and accidentally left a loop that would keep adding to a variable, one number at a time, would it die if I closed the browser? Or is there a chance it's still going... If so, did hitting refresh a bunch of times execute a bunch of other instances of the same program?
If a GCI loop executes in the woods and no body hears it...
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Sirius wrote:If in doubt, power-cycle the machine.
It's a script in /Public_HTML/CGI-BIN/test.cgiJeff250 wrote:If you close your browser? Are you talking about Web programming server-side with Python? How are you interfacing python with your server? With mod_python? Cgi? Fastcgi? Wsgi?
Then it gets pointed to by index.html
I've already fixed test.cgi, but since I don't have access to the SSH account, through the terminal, I have no way of running any commands, unless I import os directly in the script... of course I'm not sure what effects killing python would have.
My account is jailed, however.
With CGI, apache is generally configured with some timeout, where if you don't output anything in X seconds, your script is killed. So if you *aren't* outputting anything in your loop, and your server is sanely configured, your script will eventually die. On the other hand, if you *are* outputting something in a loop, Apache will kill your script when it tries to send your output after the connection has been closed (like when you closed your browser). This may not be immediate, since Apache generally buffers output before sending it.