PROBLEM: I have perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-release-3.el6 and Perl 5.10.1 and while I have a user account which can connect to the database at the command prompt, I cannot get the same user (or any user) to connect from within my Perl script. Actually, I succeeded with one connection one time (from within Perl script) on 20-Dec-2015 (Sun Dec 20 22:35:53 CST 2015).
Regards, Donna d-c...@tamu.edu INFO: Name : perl-DBD-MySQL Arch : x86_64 Version : 4.013 Release : 3.el6 Size : 338 k Repo : installed >From repo : centos-base [d-cote@earthdata Perl]$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 smp tue dec 6 19:48:22 gmt 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DDEBUGGING=-g -Dversion=5.10.1 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl5 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib64/perl5 -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5 -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl -Dinc_version_list=5.10.0 -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dusesitecustomize' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector' libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.12' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Built under linux Compiled at Nov 22 2013 18:29:21 @INC: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 SCRIPT . [d-cote@earthdata Perl]$ cat gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w # ~d-cote/Perl/gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl # # ./gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl ldm1-log-sample.log 2> /tmp/test-pl-errors.log # # will want to read text file without any order, then # build an SQL insert statement for each input line # use DBI; use strict; use warnings; use Time::Local; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; <snip> my $configinfofn = "/opt/ldmsurvey/scripts/.config"; open($setupfh, "< $encoding", $configinfofn) || die("can't open datafile (named $configinfofn): $!"); my $myline = readline($setupfh); ### reading one line from config file ($database, $userid, $password) = split(',',$myline,3); close($setupfh); #$ cat /opt/ldmsurvey/scripts/.config print " debug 58: post gather-db-config-routine, database=$database, userid=$userid \n"; my $driver = "mysql"; my $dsn = "dbi:$driver:$database"; my $dbh; print " debug 65 pre attempt db connection with $dsn $userid $password \n"; $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $userid, $password) or die $DBI::errstr; my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select id, hostname, ipaddr from hosts "); $sth->execute() or die $DBI::errstr; print "Number of rows found :" . $sth->rows . "\n"; #my @datarows = $sth->fetchrow_array(); while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) { my ($hostid, $hostname, $hostip ) = @row; print "host id = $hostid, host name = $hostname, host ip = $hostip \n"; } $sth->finish(); print " debug 76: post attempt at dbconnection, database=$database, userid=$userid \n"; <snip> my $rc = DBI->disconnect or warn $dbh->errstr;