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From: Robert Lang <rlang at lincap dot com>
Subject: RE: use Sybase::Sybperl messing up CGI ?
Date: Mar 21 2000 10:48PM

Is the SYBASE environment variable set at the System level?  Remember that
the server runs as the "system" account.  (You'll also need %SYBASE%\dll in
your System level path...)

One thing that I've found that helps is to write a little script that dumps
out the environment variables.  That way you are sure.  Something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

$q = new CGI({});

print $q->header;
print $q->start_html("Env Test");

print $q->h1("Environment Variables");
foreach $key ( sort keys %ENV )
{
    print $q->h2("$key\t$ENV{$key}");
}

print $q->end_html;

exit 0;

Regards,

Robert Lang
rlang@lincap.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bresner [mailto:rbresner@olf.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:23 PM
To: SybPerl Discussion List
Subject: use Sybase::Sybperl messing up CGI ?


Howdy...

IIS - 4.0
NT Server 4.0
Perl 5.004_04 / ASPerl 5.005_05
Sybperl 1.27 ? 2.11 ? ( See below )

We recently changed from a *nix based web server to a WinNT IIS server,
and only the CGI scripts using Sybase::Sybperl are having troubles.
That's, of course, all of the good ones...

With Netscape and IE4-5, I get this output:
         at C:/Perl/site/lib/Sybase/Sybperl.pm line 79
        BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
C:/Perl/site/lib/Sybase/Sybperl.pm
line
79.
        BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at D:\intra\enterprise\rel_req.cgi
line 7.
(Which seems to be missing a line or two ? )

The program runs perfectly from the command line on the server.
I've also set QUERY_STRING before running, and still no problems.
Only when the script is executed from a browser does it fail
with the above output. 
The script also seems to run fine when the 
        use Sybase::Sybperl
line is removed. ( Of course, the database stuff fails, but the page
itself displays, instead of the CGI Error page or the above error msgs.)

I tried removing the -w and use strict; from the Perl file, remembering
some very old issues with that and use Sybase::Sybperl;. Still no help.

We were using the CPAN perl 5.004_04, then downloaded and tried 
ActiveState Perl 5.005_05. Sybperl.pm tells me the version is 1.27,
ActiveState's PPM.exe tells me Sybperl version is 2.11, and up to date.

I know this isn't a CGI list, but I'm hoping someone experienced 
(and fixed :) at least something similar to the problem I'm experiencing,
or can point me to a better place to post.



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