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  • From: "roland bole" <roland.bole AT gmx.at>
  • To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: AW: [freetds] connect problem to mssql 7.0
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:04:16 +0100


> >On Dec 15, 2003, at 3:49, James K. Lowden wrote:

> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, "roland bole" <roland.bole AT gmx.at> wrote:
>>>
> > > Could this be a problem also for the apache.
> > > Have I set up the $FREETDSCONF var in a profile file ?
> > That's not easy, right? Because apache runs under the "nobody"
> > account,
> > which has no home directory? I mean, there's no ~nobody/.profile.

> You can achieve the desired effect temporarily by restarting apache:

> [root@]# apachectl stop
> /usr/sbin/apachectl stop: httpd stopped
> [root@]# TDSDUMPCONFIG=/tmp/tdscfg.txt apachectl start

If I try this:
export TDSDUMPCONF=/tmp/tds_con.txt /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start

I receive the following error:
bash: export: `/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl': not a valid identifier

Is there a syntax problem?


> To make this permanent, you'll have to edit the init file your specific
> system is using, which varies by vendor.
> For example it's /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd on Red Hat or
> /System/Library/StartupItems/Apache/Apache on Mac OS X.

> > I've seen people set environment variables in their PHP scripts, but I
> > don't have any advice for you on that score.

> I believe that would be too late, unless maybe the case when you are
> dynamically loading the mssql/sybase PHP extension in your script,
> which is not possible on multi-threaded servers. http://www.php.net/dl
> for more info.

> Otherwise, even Apache's mod_env module is seemingly too late in the
> process to affect FreeTDS.
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_env.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_env.html

> Although the PHP scripts could see then see the environment variables
>set by SetEnv, it doesn't seem to have any effect on FreeTDS.

>--
>fds

G
Roland

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