Sorry if this wasn't exactly clear, it's the _database_ password we
are trying to pass in manually.
We did try exactly the following, and it did not work. This was a bit
suprising and I was wondering why this was the case...
- Mike H.
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:44:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello,
MHWe are working with some financial folks who would like us to set
MHpasswords when we bring apache up, rather than using a config file.
MHWe tried various permutations of inputting variables in the 'setup.pl'
MHfile and so on - although we could echo the variable, if we input it,
MHit was not available to the child processes. If we set the variable
MHto a string it is always set, however.
The logic of having webserver that needs human intervention to set up, in
a production environment, is somewhat doubtful. What happens if your
webserver goes down and needs to be brought up automatically?
That aside, your question is a bit confusing. Do you mean that, if you do
this is the startup script:
$password = 'constant';
That the children get the value of $password, but when you prompt for the
password during startup, the children don't?
If you put the password in a global, it should persist across the children
as the Perl startup script is run before forking. Perhaps you should try
fully qualifying the namespace:
chomp($My_Company_Name::PASSWORD = STDIN);
And then refering to $My_Company_Name::PASSWORD in your scripts.
Humbly,
Andrew
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