30 second rule partially repealed

I've turned off the 30-second timeout rule except for a few specific scripts, notably mt-xxx. I'm considering a more adaptive system that gets progressively stricter as server load increases, or multiple instances of a script pile up. But for the time being, I'm allowing anything except a few known trouble makers.

control panel issues

The control panel has been acting screwy again. Some (but not all) people are unable to log in. When I strace the control panel process, it appears to be hanging while talking to MySQL, yet MySQL itself is responsive, and other scripts on the machine are also working fine. So far, I've been unable to duplicate the problem on demand.

I've been working lately to get the control panel code compatable with the winpdb remote debugger, which would let me actually step through the code to isolate the problem. This almost working: I can step through my framework, but not into the actual scripts. The fix is just a matter of changing the way I use python's exec statement so I should be able to fix this soon.

Meanwhile, the only short term fix that seems to work is restarting the whole server. Which I just did. :/