Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41C395C5.C1456B8A@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:28:21 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't use DBI and mod_perl together in Cygwin. References: <41C304C5.2030901@delanobay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com kurt heston wrote: > I've traced my problem to the TCP/IP stack. The code below gives: > > "Can't get tcp protocol by name at > /var/www/htdocs/groups/Purch/bin/secure/test.cgi line 12" You're missing the SYSTEMROOT environment variable in your CGI environment. Recent Cygwin DLLs try to circumvent this, so make sure you're using the latest. Otherwise make sure SYSTEMROOT is set in the environment under which the CGI is running. (That is why it works from a prompt but not from CGI.) Was this one added to the FAQ yet? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/