Coranto problems, all CGI working except 'Build News'

perl, Coranto problems, all CGI working except 'Build News'

[Socceraccess]

Dear users

I have been using Coranto for over a year now

However, it seems that my server has Perl problems or something like that

the problem is this:

When I click on the 'build news' link, the page takes forever to load (seems like perl hangs or something similar). When I type 'ps aux' I can sea a:

.../perl /www/cgi-bin/coranto/coranto.cgi

process.

What the script does is ruins all my news.

I've already tried replacing the whole cgi-bin/coranto folder, and the entire news/ folder as well (with previous backups, 1 and 2 days older)

The script was working fine until this afternoon.

Regards

[IanKelley]

Is it contacting an external source of data? Possibly it's down or running slowly.

[Socceraccess]

Well the main problem was that there were two profiles that wanted to write to the same file
so the script took forever to load

[IanKelley]

Unless the file write routine is doing something amazingly inefficient you should be able to have 1000's of processes write to the same file without noticeable slowdown.