the permissions on the file and the enclosing directory (all the way up to the root dir) must allow for execution
also, my.cnf need to have [mysqld] local-infile=1 #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:databasename", 'user', 'password', { PrintError => 0 } ) or die "Can't connect to mysql database: $DBI::errstr\n"; $input = "load data infile '/users/hcir/p99x/palmer/last/trk' into table trk"; $dbh->do($input) or warn "$DBI::errstr\n"; $dbh->disconnect or print "Disconnect failure: $DBI::errstr\n"; - hcir On Monday, Oct 7, 2002, at 18:51 America/Anchorage, Ronald Petty wrote: > I just tried the following and got > > ysql> load data local infile "/home/repett0/contact.data" into table > CONTACT; > ERROR 1148: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version > mysql> > > I too use perl and dbi > > What is going on? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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