Thanks, John, for your time.
Here is the successful connect on the command line:
> $ /usr/bin/mysql -u ldmdbuser2 -pb7cb452be401724b9a1b ldmsurvey
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
> Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5698
Server version: 5.1.73 Source distribution
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> reserved.
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affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input
> statement.
> mysql>
My perl script reads a .config file which contains:
> $
> cat /opt/ldmsurvey/scripts/.config
ldmsurvey,ldmdbuser2,b7cb452be401724b9a1b
The script's output is:
> $ ./gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl ldm1-log-sample.log
debug 51 pre gather db config routine
debug 58: post gather-db-config-routine, database=ldmsurvey,
> userid=ldmdbuser2
debug 65 pre attempt db connection with dbi:mysql:ldmsurvey ldmdbuser2
> b7cb452be401724b9a1b
DBI connect('ldmsurvey','ldmdbuser2',...) failed: Access denied for user
> 'ldmdbuser2'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at ./
> gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl line 65
Access denied for user 'ldmdbuser2'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at ./
> gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl line 65.
$
Just don't understand.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:49 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 5:36 PM, Donna Cote wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>
>
> I see your perl program has a bunch of debug print's, but you don't show
> the actual output from them, nor the contents of your .config file which
> apparently contains the database connection parameters.
>
> it would also be useful to see the command line you use to successfully
> connect to this database at the command prompt.
>
>
>
> --
> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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