Hello NG,

I have an Apache web server 2.0.46 running on my RedHat Enterprise
Linux 3 WS running. I want to execute an CGI application written in
c++. This application needs a correct set environment variable
(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) because it creates a Java virtual machine and
therefore needs some Java librarys from the path
/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/lib/i386. In order to get it work I added a
SetEnv command to the httpd.conf:

SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/lib/i386

My application runs fine and I can see the environment variable.

If my CGI application itself now calls another application via system
oder execv command this second app doesn't have the environment
variable set. Using getenv I can't see the variable ...

Does the web server prevent the correct environment variables passing
to the second app?


Regards

Mario Freimann

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Solved the problem myself. The problem was a set "user id on
execution" bit on the second app. Because this was set the linker
ld.so didn't use the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the second app
couldn't be started at all.


Regards

Mario Freimann

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