Hi, Thanks for your help.
I tried to run both the commands that you gave me on the command line. I got the following message back from the shell: Superuser must not run /usr/bin/perldoc without security audit and taint checks. Do you know what this means? Thanks, Emma -----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 7:25 PM To: Emma Grant; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Check for DBI support At 18:51 -0700 6/20/02, Emma Grant wrote: >Hey all, > >I have decided to go with CGI for my programming language. Reason being >is that I know it a tiny bit better then I do PHP. > >Does anyone know a command line command (?) to find out if I have a DBI >for mysql support installed? % perldoc DBI % perldoc DBD::mysql If these work, they're installed. > >I am attempting to connect to a mysql database using a quick CGI script, >and then I am going to attempt to do the same thing on a web page. Right >now when I run the script that I have, which I got from many different >sources from the net, the error that the script gives me (not the die >error that I can't connect to the database), is telling me that I am >using a 'Bareword' where and 'operator' is expected. So I assumed that >it does not understand 'use DBI' Hard to say w/o seeing your code. But I'd guess it's not what you're thinking. > >Thanks for any feed back > >Emma --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
