Re: Exim, .forward and DBD::Oracle

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> You are right.
> Problem is in PATH.
> If I set PATH _inside_ perl script this doesn't help...
> I simulated this doing unset PATH in command line
> and I have the same problem.
> When I export PATH=/cygdrive/c/oracle/ora81
> this is enough to load Oracle.dll.
> 
> Then I tried to setup exim as following, i.e. with PATH
> $ /bin/cygrunsrv -I exim -p /usr/bin/exim -a "-bd -q15m" -e
> "PATH=/cygdrive/c/oracle/ora81/bin"
> 
> Unfortunately, in perl script I still have PATH=/usr/bin
> and Oracle.dll can't be loaded.
> Any ideas? Thank you!

Sure Dmitry, as I wrote
>> see "path" in sections 28.3 and 28.4 of the exim user
>> guide http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.10/doc/html/spec.html

What's happening is that for security reasons exim will
always reset PATH to /usr/bin (default, you can configure it
to something else) when launching the pipe process.

I don't understand why setting PATH inside the script
doesn't work, but that's a perl issue and I know nothing 
about perl.

Pierre

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
> To: "Dmitry Melekhov" <dm at belkam dot com>
> Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Exim, .forward and DBD::Oracle
> 
> > Hello Dmitry,
> >
> > Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is Exim's PATH correct?  Can you print it from the script?
> > >
> > > Shure. It is only /usr/bin.
> > > But I set my own enviroment with
> > > $ENV{PATH}=...
> > > with PATH /cygdrive/c/oracle/ora81/bin included.
> > >
> > > Do I need to set enviroment for exim?
> >
> > The way it works is that exim running as SYSTEM setuid
> > to "tabel" and forks a delivery process.
> > The PATH in the delivery process is /usr/bin,
> > see "path" in sections 28.3 and 28.4 of the exim user
> > guide http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.10/doc/html/spec.html
> >
> > Where do you set  $ENV{PATH}=...
> > Is it in the script?
> >   (by the way, I don't know perl)
> >
> > Try to print debug information
> >  (e.g. commands "mount", "id", "env") from inside the script
> >   after you have set the PATH and other stuff.
> > Can you execute other simple commands from inside the script?
> >

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