Apache environment variables not working in CGI

PerlSetEnv SYBASE /appl/sybase/OCS1251
PerlSetEnv SYBASE_OCS OCS-12_5
PerlSetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/ucblib

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {
  $ENV{'SYBASE'}='/appl/sybase' ;
  $ENV{'SYBASE_OCS'}='OCS-15_0' ;
  $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'}='/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib' ;
}

use DBD::Sybase;

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Is there a way to force env vars for every process in the system?

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib
SYBASE=/appl/sybase
SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0

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When you specify User/Group in the httpd.conf does it inherit the variables from that user?

> cd /usr/sbin
> export SYBASE=/appl/sybase
> export SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib
> ./httpd

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export SYBASE=/appl/sybase
export SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib

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start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "

        export SYBASE=/appl/sybase
        export SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib

        echo Environment Variables...
        env
        echo

        LANG=$HTTPD_LANG daemon --pidfile=${pidfile} $httpd $OPTIONS
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch ${lockfile}
        return $RETVAL
}

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# A function to start a program.
daemon() {
        # Test syntax.
        local gotbase= force= nicelevel corelimit
        local pid base= user= nice= bg= pid_file=
        local cgroup=
        nicelevel=0
        while [ "$1" != "${1##[-+]}" ]; do
          case $1 in
            '')    echo $"$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}"
                   return 1;;
            --check)
                   base=$2
                   gotbase="yes"
                   shift 2
                   ;;
            --check=?*)
                   base=${1#--check=}
                   gotbase="yes"
                   shift
                   ;;
            --user)
                   user=$2
                   shift 2
                   ;;
            --user=?*)
                   user=${1#--user=}
                   shift
                   ;;
            --pidfile)
                   pid_file=$2
                   shift 2
                   ;;
            --pidfile=?*)
                   pid_file=${1#--pidfile=}
                   shift
                   ;;
            --force)
                   force="force"
                  shift
                   ;;
            [-+][0-9]*)
                   nice="nice -n $1"
                   shift
                   ;;
            *)     echo $"$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}"
                   return 1;;
          esac
        done

        # Save basename.
        [ -z "$gotbase" ] && base=${1##*/}

        # See if it's already running. Look *only* at the pid file.
        __pids_var_run "$base" "$pid_file"

        [ -n "$pid" -a -z "$force" ] && return

        # make sure it doesn't core dump anywhere unless requested
        corelimit="ulimit -S -c ${DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT:-0}"

        # if they set NICELEVEL in /etc/sysconfig/foo, honor it
        [ -n "${NICELEVEL:-}" ] && nice="nice -n $NICELEVEL"

        # if they set CGROUP_DAEMON in /etc/sysconfig/foo, honor it
        if [ -n "${CGROUP_DAEMON}" ]; then
                if [ ! -x /bin/cgexec ]; then
                        echo -n "Cgroups not installed"; warning
                        echo
                else
                        cgroup="/bin/cgexec";
                        for i in $CGROUP_DAEMON; do
                                cgroup="$cgroup -g $i";
                        done
                fi
        fi

        # Echo daemon
        [ "${BOOTUP:-}" = "verbose" -a -z "${LSB:-}" ] && echo -n " $base"

        # And start it up.
        if [ -z "$user" ]; then
           $cgroup $nice /bin/bash -c "$corelimit >/dev/null 2>&1 ; $*"
        else
           $cgroup $nice runuser -s /bin/bash $user -c "$corelimit >/dev/null 2>&1 ; $*"
        fi

        [ "$?" -eq 0 ] && success $"$base startup" || failure $"$base startup"
}

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$^X is path to the apache webserver at '/usr/sbin/httpd'

It is just ugly that I have to start the web server manually instead of using the service command.

> export SYBASE=/appl/sybase
> export SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib
> cd /usr/sbin
> httpd

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start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "

        export SYBASE=/appl/sybase
        export SYBASE_OCS=OCS-15_0
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/appl/sybase/OCS-15_0/lib

        # LANG=$HTTPD_LANG daemon --pidfile=${pidfile} $httpd $OPTIONS

        echo The environment contains...
        env

        cd /usr/sbin
        ./httpd

        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch ${lockfile}
        return $RETVAL
}

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