On Dec 22, 2015 8:35 PM, "Donna Cote" <d-c...@tamu.edu> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. >> >> >> Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its >> >> 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.
Make sure $password does not contain your EOL ($/) Try ... chomp $password ; before DBI->connect -- Ted > 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 >> >