Re: Is this a problem?

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

Jon Hall wrote -

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>I've been playing with MiniVend for the last 3 days or so now, making slow
>progress at getting things to work.  I've got one question I want to
>answer before I spend a lot more time with it, though...  On the 4
>machines I've installed MiniVend on numerous times, every time I start the
>MV server, I get output such as the following:
>
>Ambiguous use of index => resolved to "index" => at
>/var/staff/grick/mvend/lib/Vend/Parse.pm line 145.
>Ambiguous use of index => resolved to "index" => at
>/var/staff/grick/mvend/lib/Vend/Parse.pm line 325.
>Ambiguous use of index => resolved to "index" => at
>/var/staff/grick/mvend/lib/Vend/Parse.pm line 397.
>MiniVend V3.14
>
>
>I saw someone else ask a similiar question on the mailing list archives
>and a possible answer of "you don't have enough system resources" was
>given.  I don't believe this to be the case.  I have installed MiniVend
>probably 10-12 times now using slightly different settings each time, on 4
>different machines.  Three of the machines are my personal machines
>running Debian Linux, kernel 2.1.x.  One is a P100, 32mb RAM, 3.2gb HD.
>One is a K6-166, 112mb RAM, 10.2gb HD, One is a dual P133, 48mb RAM, 3.2gb
>HD.  I've also installed at work on a ~P166, 64mb RAM, running BSDI 3.1.
>
>I've installed MV as a standard user several times.  I also installed it
>as root on my K6-166, and the same thing happened.
>
>I know for a fact that there are no memory/CPU limitations put upon users
>on the three Linux boxes, so I don't thihnk the explanation of "inadaquate
>resources" explains this.
>
>So... now my question is:  Is this output when starting the MV server an
>indication of an error condition?  And if so, how can it be fixed?  If
>it's not a problem, I'll just continue my experimentation and
>documentation reading and try to answer most of my other questions on my
>won before I post them to this list.
>
>I am running Perl 5.004_04 on all 4 systems I've used.
>
>Thanks for any insight.
>
>
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Jon -

I have gotten the very same messages (of course my path is different) since
the very first time I got minivend to run.  I assumed it had to do with the
fact that my implementation runs in a virtual domain.  In any case, it has
never caused any problems that I could find.

- Ed L.

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