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luken

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Registered: 2014-06-26

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[SOLVED] Where should I set env vars of libfaketime for apache?

Environmental variables in question are:

export FAKETIME="2017-07-03 21:00:00"
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/faketime/libfaketime.so.1

I have libfaketime installed, and I would like to change time in apache2 for debugging purposes. I tried to put these vars into /usr/sbin/envvars and /usr/sbin/envvars-std but to no vail. Apache doesn't seem to have access to these variables after restarting by using systemd. Where should they be put?

Last edited by luken (2017-07-04 19:26:52)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I set env vars of libfaketime for apache?

How are you starting apache?  Those just need to be exported from the parent process of whatever is starting the apache server - for debugging, I'd just do this from a shell.  But if you are using httpd.service, you'd need to add an Environment= parameter to the service file.

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luken

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I set env vars of libfaketime for apache?

Thanks Trilby!
It worked, what I did was creating a file: "/etc/systemd/system/httpd.service.d/override.conf" with a content:

[Service]
Environment="FAKETIME=2017-07-03 21:00:00"
Environment="LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/faketime/libfaketime.so.1"

And after reloading systemd and restarting httpd, I had a fake time that I wanted .

Last edited by luken (2017-07-04 19:27:36)