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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Matthew Hagerty wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Where does a process get its environment if it is not executed from the
> command line?  I have a program that connects to a database and relies on
> several ENV VARS to be set.

Wherever it is executed from.

If it is a web server, then consult your web server vendor to find out how
that happens.  With Apache, for example, there are directives in mod_env
that you can use to explicitly set various environment variables.


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