I have a simple perl script that uses DBD::Oracle to run a query and print the results. It works fine from the command line, but I also have a PHP script that runs it and reads the output. When the PHP script is accessed through apache it fails to connect, with the error "OCIEnvInit".
I've tried creating a shell script that re-sets all the environment variables available in the shell but that didn't help, and I also tried setting the debugging output for DBI but got nothing. What could cause this error when the script does work?
Are you sure that ORACLE_HOME and other relevant environment variables (e.g., LD_LIBRARY_PATH) that are set in your shell when you run the script from the command line are also set to the same values in the apache/PHP process?
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I want to interactively debug the Perl CGI using Perl debugger on a remote linux machine using VSCode. I tried every possible thing on internet to achieve this but didn't get any success, finally I have come here to get some help.
I want to set a breakpoint in VSCode and send a request from browser and want my code to stop at my breakpoint in VSCode and want to debug my Perl script interactively on remote machine.
I installed Perl debug extension on VSCode, then I installed Perl Language Server on remote machine, then I established the remote ssh connection got success with it, Now I have to setup launch.json but don't know which program I should launch or attach.
I am able to debug any standalone script using launch.json, but I want to send a request from browser to an .pl with some Post values and then I want my script to stop at the breakpoint I have set on VSCode and start debugging it interactively.
Export some variables and call the cgi on commandline, would i say if your not in vscode...
export QUERY_STRING=”a=1&foo=bar″
export REQUEST_METHOD=”GET”
# script call
perl -dT Your_cgi.pl
As a workaround you could set these environment variables with this syntax in your script.
ENV["QUERY_STRING"] = 'a=1&foo=bar';
I found out yet, this question was answered already here How can I troubleshoot my Perl CGI script?
Trying to run an orientdb script from the command line using:
console.bat then the script name e.g. console.bat myscript.osql.
When I run the command I get an error
!Unrecognized command: '?select from TestClass' (TestClass isnt the real class but it will do).
If I run the commands manually on the console they work as I would expect.
I am on windows 10 creators edition, orientdb 2.2.30.
Assuming you're connected to your database and your script is in the same directory as console.bat (bin), you should execute LOAD SCRIPT myscript.osql to properly load it.
See LOAD SCRIPT from the docs.
Is it possible to run perl script, which is located on a remote server, on that server from Windows? There is a job on a remote server that I want to get done every time I make something on Windows.
You have to have something listening for an instruction to run the script, and then you have to send the instruction.
There are lots of approaches you could take to that, including:
Running an SSH server and then connecting to it from an ssh client on the windows machine
Running an HTTP server, running the script through FastCGI, and then requesting the URL for it from curl or a browser on the Windows machine
Writing a custom protocol, listening on a socket, and then writing a custom client that you run on the Windows machine
Absolutely.
You can use plink to run commands on the server from Windows, assuming the server is running sshd.
plink user#a.domain.ext echo hi
This will print "hi\n" to the standard output.
Substitute /path/to/perl/script for echo above and substitute hi with any command line argument that the script needs.
plink is available here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
One cautionary personal note from doing this many times is that the environment in which the perl script will be run is much less complete than what you would experience when logging in via a full SSH session and running the command interactively. Many environment variables you would normally expect are unset.
For instance using "set | wc -l" in the command above produces only 39 environment variables defined, but from an interactive SSH session, there are 57 environment variables defined. You have to make sure your perl script isn't depending on an environment variable that hasn't been set. For instance, you may need to use full paths for any modules that it uses, or by using the -I flag in the shebang line, because #INC may not be what you expect it to be.
The server perl script - with its required packages - works locally by the user "my_user".
But if I run the script remotely (ssh), I need to export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/my_modules before calling the perl script to get it working.
Why this and how can I turn around this in order to avoid exporting PERLIB each time I need to call a remote perl script ?
WORKING :
ssh my_user#remote_server "export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/my_modules; /cgi-bin/my_perl_script.pl --option1 foo --option2 '*';"
NOT WORKING :
ssh my_user#remote_server "/cgi-bin/my_perl_script.pl --option1 foo --option2 '*';"
returns :
Can't locate my_package1.pm in #INC
That might be rather an ssh question than a strict perl point : why the remote user running the perl script does not inherit from its ENV local datas.
Thx
As suggested by #mu_is_too_short (no friction is good as well), and linking to a more detailed explanation here, there are different types of shells : "the SSH command execution shell is a non-interactive shell, whereas your normal shell is either a login shell or an interactive shell".
So the solution is what I did on purpose (eg adding "export PERL5LIB" before running the script), or better, source the whole environement from the remote user to run the remote shell with the expected behavior.
I have a perl script (which syncs delicious to wp) which:
runs via the shell but
does not run via cron (and i dont get an error)
The only thing I can think of is that it read the config file wrongly but... it is defined via the full path (i think).
I read my config file as:
my $config = Config::Simple->import_from('/home/12345/data/scripts/delicious/wpds.ini',
\my %config);
(I am hosted on mediatemple)
Does anybody have a clue?
update 1: HERE is the complete code: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-23-compatible-wordpress-delicious-daily-synchronization-script/trunk/ (but I have added the path as above to the configuration file location as difference)
update 2: crossposted on https://forums.mediatemple.net/viewtopic.php?pid=31563#p31563
update 3: the full path did the trick, solved
The difference between a cron job and a job run from the shell is 'environment'. The primary difference is that your profile and the like are not run for a cron job, so any environment variables you have set in your normal shell environment are not set the same in the cron environment - no extensions to PATH, no environment variables identifying where Delicious and/or WP are hosted, etc.
Suggestion: create a cron job that simply reports the environment to a known file:
env > /home/27632/tmp/env.27632
Then see what is set in your own shell environment in comparison. Chances are, that will reveal the trouble.
Failing that, other environmental differences are that a cron job has no terminal, and has /dev/null for input and output - so interactive stuff does not work well.
it seems the problem is not in running perl, but locating the Config library
you should try:
perl -e "print #INC"
and run a similar perl script in cron, and read the output
it possible that they differ
I suggest looking at my answer to How to simulate the environment cron executes a script with?
This is an similar Jonathan's answer but goes a bit further.
Based on your crontab, and depending on your installation, the problem might be the "perl". As others note the environment, particularly the $PATH variable, is different for cron. perl may not be in the path so you need to put the full path to perl in the cron command.
You can determine the path with the command $ type perl
I run into the same problem ...
Perl script works but not via CRON => error: "perl: command not found"
... after an update from Plesk 12.0 to Plesk 12.5. But the existing answers were not very helpful for me.
It took some time, but than I found this thread in the Odin forum which helps me: https://talk.plesk.com/threads/scheduled-tasks-always-fail.331821/
They suggest the following:
/usr/local/psa/bin/server_pref -u -crontab-secure-shell ""
That deletes in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs files the line:
SHELL="/opt/psa/bin/chrootsh"
After that, my cron jobs run with out any error.
(Ubuntu 14.04 with Plesk 12.5)
If the perl script runs fine manually, but not from crontab, then
there is some environment path needed by the some package that is not
getting through `cron`. Run your command as follows:
suppose your cron entry like:
* 13 * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/username/public_html/cron.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
env - /home/username/public_html/cron.pl
The output will show you the missing package. export that package path in
$PATH variables