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From: Shankar Kris <kris at japan dot sbi dot com>
Subject: Re: Sybperl query
Date: Nov 21 1995 1:38PM
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Mark Lonsdale - System Services wrote:
> What I want to do within my script is to log into 2 different servers which
> are referenced in 2 seperate interfaces files. I assumed that sybperl would
> look for the interfaces file in the location specified by the SYBASE variable.
> Assuming this what I have done is as follows :-
>
> $ENV('SYBASE')="/tmp/firstlocation";
>
> $firstconnection=&dblogin($user, $password, $firstserver)
>
> $ENV('SYBASE')="/tmp/secondlocation";
> $secondconnection=&dblogin($user, $password, $firstserver);
shouldn't this be,
$ENV{'SYBASE'} = "....";
$firstconnection =.....
probably your script never read the SYBASE env thru your program
but read the value from a previously set environment.
>
> What happens is is that it cannot find the second server entry in the
> interfaces file as it is still looking in the first interfaces file (i.e. It
> doesn't seem to have picked up the change in variable). I am using perl v4.0
> on SunOs 4.1.3
Hope this helps,
Krish Shankar kris@japan.sbi.com
'the quieter you become, the more you are able to hear'
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