Re: Modified DBIStore.pm

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jw...@acm.org>]

Robert Monical wrote:
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> The untimely departure of our entire Web Programming team means that
> I have inherited an Apache-mason-modperl-DBI-DBD-Oracle project.
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> First order of business has been to install the production environement
> on a new host making sure I understand how it works.  This list and the
> archive proved invaluable.
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> My oddest problem was that I found the following changes to DBIStore.pm.
> Essentially added the ORACLE_HOME declaration, a driver attribute,
> and changed the name of the sessions table to dbi_sessions.
> The driver attribute is, I believe, an entry in our tnsnames.ora file.
> 
> There seems to be no changes to the other perl componetns
> as installed.
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> Is this a question for this list?

Not really.  Try modperl@apache.org

> Is this something our group came up with one their own?

In some ways :)

> Or is at a well known modification that I have not come accross yet?

In other ways :)

Personally I don't think Apache::Session::DBIStore is the right place to
be setting environment variables.  Why don't you set them in the (gasp)
environment?

Regards,
Jeffrey