On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Michael Peters <mpet...@plusthree.com> wrote: > On 12/17/2009 04:25 PM, greg.geo...@orica.com wrote: >> >> BTW apache is starting as root and I have confirmed that startup.pl is >> being run as root by apache/mod_perl >> I am going to look in more detail at what DynaLoader.pm does in case >> this gives any clues. > > Not sure if this helps or not, but on some systems LD_LIBRARY_PATH can't be > set by the same process that uses it. So you need it set by the process that > starts the process that uses. So for instance, you need to make sure it's > set in your shell environment and that it gets exported to the commands you > run (sometimes "su" can remove ENV vars). And then you'll need a "PassEnv > LD_LIBRARY_PATH" and a "PerlPassEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH". But you can't do a > "SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH" in your httpd.conf. > > Not sure if that will help or not though since it's been a while since I've > touched AIX.
I remember LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues a few years ago with 64bit and libpaths in /usr/lib64 etc. I was able to resolve that by adding the paths to /etc/ld.so.conf or something similar and then running ldconfig to update the system library paths. No such facility in AIX: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.aix/browse_frm/thread/b9bad793f5e2a475?pli=1
