[LON-CAPA-admin] Auto enroll timeout

[H. K. Ng]

Hi Guy,


> > >Does your fetch enrollement do any system calls or `` ?
> >
> > No - it does not do any system calls.
>
>Hrrm. That child exit would only occur if it did....

Yes - it looks like every time the connect statement is called the 
child process exit?? That message is not present on the development 
box which fetches the enrollment data properly.

I have made the iptables identical for both machines - does not help.



> > The logthis calls indicates that the routine hangs at the
> > connect-to-the university db. What puzzles me now is why the separate
> > program - which has the same statements works but not in loncapa?? It
> > looks like some kind of env var is not set for oracle when called
> > from loncapa - but that normally will stop the program in a few 
> micro-seconds.
>
>Might be best to a dump of %ENV then and compare what is set and what
>isn't betweeen the two cases.

What is a good way to do this?

Thanks,
-hk