Things I always need to look up in Perl
Here are some random Perl things I always need to look up:
Last Updated: Mon, 21 Dec 2009
Keith A. Carangelo
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Here are some random Perl things I always need to look up:
Last Updated: Mon, 21 Dec 2009
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.
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
Last Updated: Mon, 02 Nov 2009
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??
Last Updated: Thu, 01 Oct 2009