Hello,

On an AIX 5.3 installation, I have a LIBPATH like this in
/etc/environment:

LIBPATH=/usr/lib:/lib:/home/db2inst2/sqllib/lib:/home/db2inst2/sqllib/
odbc/lib

However, cron/at seems to strip off this environment variable before
executing jobs (other stuff from /etc/environment seems to pass through
to the jobs alright).

Is there a way to configure cron/at to let the variable live? - Or is
there another way to make aix look into additional directories for
libraries? (In linux, I'd use /etc/ld.so.conf or the /etc/ld.so.conf.d
directory to add library paths - does AIX have something similar?)

(Of course, I could tell the users to specifically add environment-
related things to their cron-jobs, but I'd rather remove unnecessary
complexity.)

--
Regards,
Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk>
http://troels.arvin.dk/

Troels Arvin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On an AIX 5.3 installation, I have a LIBPATH like this in
> /etc/environment:
>
> LIBPATH=/usr/lib:/lib:/home/db2inst2/sqllib/lib:/home/db2inst2/sqllib/
> odbc/lib
>
> However, cron/at seems to strip off this environment variable before
> executing jobs (other stuff from /etc/environment seems to pass through
> to the jobs alright).
>
> Is there a way to configure cron/at to let the variable live? - Or is
> there another way to make aix look into additional directories for
> libraries? (In linux, I'd use /etc/ld.so.conf or the /etc/ld.so.conf.d
> directory to add library paths - does AIX have something similar?)
>
> (Of course, I could tell the users to specifically add environment-
> related things to their cron-jobs, but I'd rather remove unnecessary
> complexity.)
>

The LIBPATH is reset on purpose is some cases, as a
security measure to prevent 'trojan horse' situations.
For example, see what this says about 'suid' programs:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...etrf1/exec.htm

Paul Landay