>Here's the gist ... when I run some code which looks like ... > > my result = `/usr/local/bin/matlab < input_file.m`;> > >... from a perl CGI, then matlab (a commercial math package) >segfaults. However, when I run it from mod_perl on the same server it >runs fine (it runs fine from the command line, btw).
Sounds like a dynamic lib problem. W/o knowing your OS its hard to say what variable Apache is setting but try looking at one of these SHLIB_PATH,LD_LIBRARY_PATH. >For anyone who may have Matlab available, btw, this is only with >Matlab 6. Matlab 5 (which we no longer have a license for) works just >fine. Yup, I suspect Matlab 6 requires a newer shared library of some sort. Cheers, Tom Murphy
