We have a perl (v5.8.7) daemon, written using the CPAN module Daemon::Generic (v0.4), which is crashing daily. This daemon contantly checks for new entries to a table, and when it encounters them, will fork off a delivery process to run a GET or POST request using LWP::UserAgent (v2.033).

Normally, this works fine. However, last night, immediately before the crash, one of the delivery processes encountered the following error when trying to make a POST request:

500 Can't locate object method "configure" via package "Net::HTTP"
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:26:27 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response

500 Can't locate object method "configure" via package "Net::HTTP"

[download]

This seems to indicate to me that the environment that the delivery processes are being created under is getting corrupted, which in turn takes down the entire daemon. Does this sound plausible? How could it happen? There is only one perl installation and one version of Net::HTTP on the machine. We are running on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Our resident bestower of Perl wisdom is on vacation, so I humbly beg the Perl Monks for some sage advice in ridding my daemon of this demon!

Thanks alot!
Jim

In reply to Daemon problem: Can't locate object method "configure" via package "Net::HTTP" by jspath

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