how do I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

[jackc]

On my directadmin servers LD_LIBRARY_PATH shows empty, is it not set by default? other people's servers have something like this LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/bin:.
Can I set this on apache? Will be using it for CGI, Would it create security issues?

Thanks

 

[Ramsy]

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html

When should I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

The short answer is never.
Why?

Some users seem to set this environment variable because of bad advice from other users or badly linked code that they do not know how to fix.

 

[jackc]

A user said his cgi script needs this, he's unable to use setenv to set it, so I wonder what to do.

 

[Ramsy]

This is definitely not needed for any cgi or perl scripts!

 

[jackc]

Thanks. one question, is setENV suppose to work?

 

[Ramsy]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_env.html

 

[jackc]

thanks problem fixed, suexec was in affect.