severity 252627 wishlist tags 252627 wontfix stop On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Package: apache > Version: 1.3.29.0.2-4 > Severity: normal > > After getting the latest Apache, I found that passing environment > variables to the server from the command line no longer works. This > is the changelog: > > - More init scripts cleanup. It shouldn't leak environment information > (Closes: #229653, #230991) > > Unfortunately this isn't very useful behaviour. I routinely set > PGHOST to select development database. Now there is no useful way to > pass this from the command line to Apache. (Adding it to > /etc/apache/local.conf using SetEnv doesn't work because mod_env runs > too late). > > As another example it makes the PassEnv directive completely useless. > Leaking environment information can disclose sensible information about the server. This bug will not be fixed. Fabio -- <user> fajita: step one <fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log. <user> fajita: step two <fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.
