[pca] PCA proxy question

[Martin Paul]

Jon Whitehouse wrote:
> Nevermind... I have tracked down the issue. One of our admins changed
> the password to the sunsolve account. I had updated the pca.conf file
> on our proxy server but forgot to update the pca-proxy.conf file...

I see :) As long as the proxy was working, all pca clients got the 
patches through the proxy. Now that the proxy failed, they tried to 
connect to SunSolve directly, which was blocked by your web proxy. It's 
maybe best to not specify user/passwd in pca.conf at all, because then 
pca won't even try to access SunSolve, and you have the account data in 
exactly one file (pca-proxy.conf).

> BTW, Thanks for the tip on perl. I may see if we can update that to
> the latest so we can use threading.

Actually, it's not an issue of a too old version of perl, but the fact 
that threading is not enabled by default when compiling perl (AFAIK, not 
even in the recent version of perl). You have to use "-Dusethreads" when 
running "Configure" to set up the perl installation.

Martin.