PERL5LIB on CentOS

qhen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings Monks,

I guess this is more of a CentOS/distribution question, but here goes anyway:

I'd like to set PERL5LIB universally for all users (including root) on CentOS. I've tried the following in /etc/profile.d/abc.sh

export PERL5LIB="/abc"
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But it's not being used at all/by any scripts. I've even tried using /etc/profile.d/perl.sh without success.

I'd appreciate any pointers

Thanks

RESOLVED: /etc/profile.d/* scripts are only run when a user LOGS IN, not merely opening terminals when already logged in.

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Re: PERL5LIB on CentOS by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 27, 2014 at 12:54 UTC
For example cronjobs do not load the `.profile` for the user. Maybe you want to tell us more details about which scripts work and which don't, and what the difference between them is?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: PERL5LIB on CentOS by qhen (Acolyte) on Jun 27, 2014 at 13:02 UTC
ok, thanks - looks like the only way to do this with cron is explicitly: `/5 * * * export PERL5LIB=/abc /xxx/script.pl` That solves that problem. However, NO scripts for any users use PERL5LIB from /etc/profile.d/xxxx.sh	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: PERL5LIB on CentOS by hippo (Archbishop) on Jun 27, 2014 at 13:17 UTC
Simple diagnosis. Login as the user in question then try this: `$ echo $PERL5LIB /foo/bar/lib $ perl -e 'print $ENV{PERL5LIB} . "\n";' /foo/bar/lib` [download] which will show whether it is in the environment to begin with and if so whether you are doing something in your perl setup to negate that.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: PERL5LIB on CentOS by qhen (Acolyte) on Jun 27, 2014 at 13:27 UTC
Re^5: PERL5LIB on CentOS by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 27, 2014 at 14:20 UTC
Re: PERL5LIB on CentOS by 1s44c (Scribe) on Jun 28, 2014 at 17:11 UTC
The intermediate perl book recommends not setting PERL5LIB system wide for all users. Users who have discovered CPAN will mess around with that variable. The book recommends adjusting the source and recompiling instead, which does sound like a load of pain to me. Why not just put your modules in /usr/local/lib/site_perl? That should be in @INC. EDIT: just checked, it's /usr/local/lib/perl5 on CentOS.	[reply]