Thank you!
I am not sure why this did it but now I get the error:
Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server.
consider upgrading MySQL client.
I researched this and found the "old_password" needed to be "on" for this to
work. Any idea why I need the old_password set to on to use this script? I
am using redhat and everything is updated to the latest rpm's.
The script works with the old_password set to on.
Ryan
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From: "Chas Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FamiLink Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Perl Beginners List" <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: using perl ot connect to a database
On 3/15/07, FamiLink Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to connect to a database using a small script but get this
error:
failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' perl
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Am I doing something wrong?
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Try the following instead of using the environment variable.
my $host = the machine the db is on, localhost if local;
my $port = the port mysql is listening on;
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port";
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