Installation guide

Platform-Specific Information
54 iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Release Notes • June 20, 2001
Problem 382457. Web Server Crashes When Sybase Connection Fails
On Linux, if you connect to a Sybase server using LiveWire and the connection fails, the web server
crashes. The server crashes because the
LANG and LC_ALL environment variable values do not match
values in the
locales.dat file.
Workaround
Modify the ${SYBASE}/locales/locales.dat file so that it has an entry for the locale that you
want. For example, if you set
LANG=en_US or LC_ALL=en_US or both, add the following entry to the
[linux] section in locales.dat:
locale = en_US, us_english, iso_1
Problem 382458. Database Libraries Need to Be Set in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
On Linux, to connect to any database using iPlanet Web Server 4.1, you must point the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the client library directory. For example (the
following must be all on one line):
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${DB2PATH}/lib:${ORACLE_HOME}/lib:${INFORMIXDIR}
/lib:${INFORMIXDIR}/lib/esql:${SYBASE}/lib
Problem 385237. Unstable Databases
LiveWire may exhibit problems on Linux platforms with all databases (except Informix) when
running under stress conditions.
Problem 391820. Perl scripts fail with .pl extensions
Perl scripts fail with .pl extensions when the .pl extension has a specific mime.type x application.
Workaround
The problem can be resolved by commenting out the x application mime.type extension for .pl.
Solaris Platforms
Problem. Potential server instability.
If you use Solaris 7 you may see instability within the server if you are not using the correct patch
cluster.
Workaround
Install Solaris patch cluster 106541-12.