At 19:36 -0700 6/20/02, Emma Grant wrote: >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?
It means you shouldn't run perldoc as root. Run it as a normal unprivileged user. You're not *really* running routine commands as root are you? > >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
