note 8872 added to Oracle 8 functions

couple of notes about startup/shutdown on linux: (redhat, maybe others) export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpthread.so Caused the start/stop script to fail to stop the httpd process. The LD_PRELOAD environment var caused the 'ps' command to core dump. I went bald figuring that out. Easiest fix I could think of was to move all the oracle/php varialble exports so they are only set in the start section of the httpd script. Never thought setting those vars globally in the script would cause problems. That's what I get for thinking... One other note: Make sure the httpd process is shutdown before Oracle. eg: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K15httpd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K25Oracle Lingering connections to oracle may cause shutdown to take forever. gl & hf -Joe http://www.php.net/manual/ref.oci8.php