sybperl-l Archive

From: Mark dot Lonsdale at fw dot gs dot com (Mark Lonsdale - System Services)
Subject: Re: Sybperl query
Date: Nov 21 1995 1:44PM

Sorry,

thats a typo in the mail - I do have it set to $ENV{'SYBASE'}="...";

 Thanks for the spotting it though !

Mark

On Nov 21, 10:38pm, Shankar Kris wrote:
> Subject: Re: Sybperl query
> 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'
>
>-- End of excerpt from Shankar Kris