Library or symlink error

[Martin Sarachu <ma...@biol.unlp.edu.ar>]

Hi,

I'm getting this strange error when trying to execute a program form a
perl script via Apache 

> ld.so.1: wossname: fatal: libpng.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory 

but when I execute wossname from command line it works ok. Also if I log
in as user nobody (the user Apache uses), wossname works fine. Any idea? 

martin

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Re: Library or symlink error

[Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>]

Martin Sarachu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting this strange error when trying to execute a program form a
> perl script via Apache
> 
> > ld.so.1: wossname: fatal: libpng.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory
> 
> but when I execute wossname from command line it works ok. Also if I log
> in as user nobody (the user Apache uses), wossname works fine. Any idea?

The shell which runs the CGI scripts doesn't inherit the user's
environment variables by default. Probably apache needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH
set. Do:

PassEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH

to pass the value from the shell or;

SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /path/to/lib

to set it explicitly.

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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