[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Crash whilst using Network test plugin

[Andy Grundman]

On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Andy Grundman wrote:

>
> On Oct 1, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Dan Sully wrote:
>
>> * Phil Meyer shaped the electrons to say...
>>
>>> I installed the NowPlaying plugin a week or so ago - I haven't  
>>> got round to
>>> setting it up yet, but the occasional "failed to connect to ftp  
>>> server"
>>> message hasn't been a problem.  Could there be some issue with this
>>> occuring during a network test though?
>>
>> I'm guessing the NowPlaying plugin / failed FTP caused the  
>> original crash.
>>
>> The author of that plugin should protect against not being able to  
>> login.
>>
>> There was a typo in Timers.pm for the Dump/dump() function, which  
>> I've fixed.
>
> He also should not use Net::FTP!  Yikes...

Or threads!  You should remove this plugin.  SlimServer will probably  
not work right with threads.