Things I always need to look up in Perl

Here are some random Perl things I always need to look up:

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Last Updated: Mon, 21 Dec 2009

Installing ODBC on Linux

At work, we use Microsoft SQL Server and IBM AS400 databases. Here’s how I set our Linux boxes to allow them to connect to the databases through ODBC. There are seperate instructions for the Debian and Ubuntu (9.10 Karmic Koala) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL4 and RHEL5) distributions.

ODBC connections require several layers of software to work. The bottom layer consists of the individual ODBC drivers for each database system. Our top layer is the DBI/DBD interface for Perl. In between these layers is the ODBC driver manager, which keeps track of the DSN’s and their corresponding ODBC drivers.

Packages and Software to Install

Ubuntu Version (tested on 9.10 Karmic Koala)
Debian Version (“unstable” distribution)

We use unixODBC as our ODBC driver manager. First, install unixODBC:
NOTE: Perl’s DBD::ODBC module requires the developer’s version of unixODBC, so install that one. 

  # apt-get install unixodbc-dev

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Last Updated: Mon, 02 Nov 2009

No such file or directoryectory

When I execute a CVS update command at work, I often get the following error: 

[caran@mater safetypublic]$ cvs -q update -AdP
: No such file or directoryectory /home/cvs/safetypublic/rsvp
cvs update: skipping directory rsvp

No such directoryectory? What the heck is that??

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Last Updated: Thu, 01 Oct 2009