06-Jan-2019

Update to WASD
Checking the WASD server log las week, I noted that WASD had silently crashed and restarted several times since last update:
%HTTPD-F-SOFTWAREID, HTTPd-WASD/11.3.0 OpenVMS/AXP SSL
-HTTPD-F-WHEN, 12-DEC-2018 19:32:30.98
-HTTPD-F-WHERE, module:VM line:939
-HTTPD-F-WHAT, lib$get_vm()
%HTTPD-F-EXIT, 12-DEC-2018 19:32:31, WASD:80 %X10158264
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, FFFFFFFF800880D8
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, 0000000000239F74
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, 0000000000388658
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, 00000000001B8398
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, 00000000001A1CDC
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, FFFFFFFF80189210
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, FFFFFFFF801635E4
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, 0000000000264784
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, 0000000000262F74
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, FFFFFFFF80E77718
-HTTPD-F-TRACE, FFFFFFFF80E50444
(all requests that were loaded at that time, or last 100?)
-HTTPD-F-ADIEU, ...
$ httpd /priority=4 /SYSUAF=RELAXED
%HTTPD-I-SOFTWAREID, HTTPd-WASD/11.3.0 OpenVMS/AXP SSL
WASD VMS Web Services, Copyright (C) 1996-2018 Mark G.Daniel.
This package (all associated programs), comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under the
conditions of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, version 3, or any later version.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
%HTTPD-I-IMAGE, HTTPD_SSL 11.3.0 09-DEC-2018 19:04:04.31 $116$DKA100:[WEB.WASD_ROOT.][AXP]HTTPD_SSL.EXE
%HTTPD-I-STARTUP, 12-DEC-2018 19:32:47
%HTTPD-I-ALIGN, start collecting alignment faults (64kB,128,0xFFFFFFF0)
%HTTPD-I-WASD_ROOT, $116$DKA100:[WEB.WASD_ROOT]
%HTTPD-I-ENVIRONMENT, 1
%HTTPD-I-SYSTEM, AlphaServer DS10 617 MHz VMS V8.4
%HTTPD-I-TCPIP, HP TCPIP$IPC_SHR V5.7-ECO5 (08-NOV-2014 13:06:10.02)
%HTTPD-I-MODE, OTHER
%HTTPD-I-ODS5, supported by Alpha VMS V8.4
%HTTPD-I-ODS, directory parser enabled
%HTTPD-I-GMT, +00:00
%HTTPD-I-INSTANCE, supervisor
%HTTPD-I-GZIP, using LIBZ_SHR32 V1.2.3
%HTTPD-I-GBLSEC, existing global section of 32 page(let)s
...

Noted Mark Daniels, he supplied a set of sources that have been updated due to other and this issue, got these, installed them, recompiled the server and installed it (version 11.3.0a).

See if the issue is solved, during the next weeks.