[ILUG] Broken pipe error in Oracle WebDb

[Ciaran Bradley]

Hi there,

I'm new to using Linux (3-4 months), and for a college project four of us
are producing a database driven website. We're trying to do the whole thing
on Linux instead of the ASP/IIS/Access/SQL server etc way, and only one out
of the 4 of us has ever used Linux before.  A bit of a challenge, you might
say. 

Part of the group are writing a cgi-compliant web server in C and I've been
lumped with the dB end of things. For various reasons it was decided to use
RH 6.0, Oracle 8 and Java servlets to communicate with the web server. Yes,
I know we could have used Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl etc so no smart comments
please. 

The plan has since changed 'cos we're running out of time, so I'm using
Oracle WebDb 2.0 and Oracle 8.05 to speed things up a bit. I've managed to
get Oracle8 and WebDb up and running but, now I'm running into some network
errors in WebDb that I don't really understand. I was hoping someone here
might be able to help. The error message I'm getting in Netscape when
connecting to parts of WebDb is "Network error: broken pipe". What exactly
is a broken pipe? 

Thanks for reading this far, I know it's taken me a long time to get to the
point but I thought I should explain some of the background.

Ciaran

Ciaran Bradley,
Project Officer, Irish Marine Data Centre,
Marine Science Technology & Innovation Services
Marine Institute
80 Harcourt Street
Dublin 2
Ireland.

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> 
email : ciaran.bradley at marine.ie
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