Re: DBD::Sybase with FreeTDS on Linux works, but fails when run under Apache

Michael Peppler <[email protected]> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:56:15 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase
Organization	Peppler Consulting SaRL
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Ed Avis wrote:
> Michael Peppler wrote:
> 
>>> I am using Fedora Linux 6, with FreeTDS 0.64, and 
>>> DBD::Sybase 1.08.
> 
>> Check the SElinux settings. By default this is turned on, and 
>> prevents CGI scripts from openening "untrusted" shared libraries.
> 
> Thanks, that was it.  I went to System -> Administration -> Security level and firewall -> SELinux -> Modify SELinux settings -> HTTPD settings and ticked a bunch of stuff.  Now the CGI script is able to connect.
> 
> Could DBD::Sybase be changed to report a better error message when it cannot load the ctlib shared library?
> 

Unfortunately not, because DBD::Sybase itself simply can't load if the 
shared library can't be loaded.

Michael
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