I did. it dies with "unknown error" - hence my confusion.
and for those who didn't catch it, the userid and database name are
identical (hence the double usage of $UserID in the connect parameters)..
-Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Colin Faber wrote:
> To: Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Colin Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: setup/DBI issues...
> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:16:49 -0700
>
> A little more information would be helpful, Such as pasting the exact
> error here.
>
> Chris Petersen wrote:
> >
> > ok, after several months away from working with mysql, I figured I should
> > get back into things.. anyway, the server is up and running, and I can
> > access it with the mysql client, but I get an "unknown" error whenever I
> > try to connect to it via perl DBI...
> >
> > I'm using:
> >
> > DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$UserID", $UserID, $DBPass);
> >
> > This works on other servers, and is not limited to one single script, so I
> > know it's a config issue on my part.. any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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