Problem with rate scrip

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I'm getting the following after trying to vote for a site:

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Can't get file lock. Reason: Bad file descriptor
Script Location : rate.cgi
Perl Version : 5.008

Form Variables
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ID : 11535
RefURL :
rate : 5
visitoremail :

Environment Variables
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CONTENT_LENGTH : 37
CONTENT_TYPE : application/x-www-form-urlencoded
DOCUMENT_ROOT : /home/virtual/site3/fst/var/www/html
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET : ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_CONNECTION : keep-alive
HTTP_HOST : www.rpggateway.com
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE : 300
HTTP_REFERER : http://www.rpggateway.com/cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi?ID=11535
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
PATH : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 199.126.174.191
REMOTE_PORT : 60041
REQUEST_METHOD : POST
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /home/virtual/site3/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi
SCRIPT_URI : http://www.rpggateway.com/cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi
SCRIPT_URL : /cgi-bin/wyrm/rate.cgi
SERVER_ADDR : 207.44.210.107
SERVER_ADMIN : effie@rpggateway.com
SERVER_NAME : www.rpggateway.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache
SITE_CGIROOT : /home/virtual/site3/fst/var/www/cgi-bin
SITE_HTMLROOT : /home/virtual/site3/fst/var/www/html
SITE_ROOT : /home/virtual/site3/fst
UNIQUE_ID : U@O43c8s0msAAAkgAycAAAAg

By AusRPGer Mon, 05/08/2006 - 4:02am.

Hi,
This has already been covered in the thread Voting Error. Effie said that there is a nut overloading the httpd daemon* (the web server software) on the server.

*Thought the 'd' in httpd stands for daemon.

Wikipedia Apache HTTP Server entry.

AusRPGer
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By Effie.Rover Fri, 05/12/2006 - 12:19pm.

Yah. Got 'em -- some idiot using a bot-net to ramp up credits in the Exchange. Anyway, that problem also caused the rate log file to become corrupted. I just re-built the file today, so it should be 100% now.

By Frug Fri, 06/16/2006 - 11:03am.

I believe it's broken again. Regular Sad

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