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You need a different Perl

grahams — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:09:57 -0800

That looks like the original Perl that shipped with your system. PDK will require a Perl based on ActivePerl. HP supplies newer versions of ActivePerl through and OEM agreement. You can download ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 (with 823 available soon) from HP.

ODBC Connection works on Command line, but not in Web Browser

andrew2404 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:57:46 -0700

I have a perl app that happily retrieves from a MS-SQL database when run on the command line. However, when I run it from a web browser nothing is displayed. It fails to connect to the database

It must be due to the browser not running as "my user" and running as the "web user", which does not have permission to connect. Where can I check this?

I feel that I'm really close. HELP:>

Many thanks in advance.

There is more than one way

grahams — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:06:39 -0700

And this tutorial discusses one of them.

http://www.easysoft.com/developer/languages/perl/sql_server_unix_tutoria...

You don't necessarily have to use this ODBC product, or even the ODBC approach, but the tutorial does provide a good description of the parts involved in setting up a connection.

I think this is fixed. I

Dave.McIsaac — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:55:35 -0700

I think this is fixed. I need to use the mod_cgid module instead of the mod_cgi module in Apache and configure it to use a named socket. This finctionality seems to be explicit to HP-UX. Preliminary testing indicates that it's working fine.

Thanks jeffh - I tried this

Dave.McIsaac — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:55:40 -0700

Thanks jeffh - I tried this and it made no difference. I'm sorry if I implied that I think the problem is with Tcl. I don't! I think the problem is with the way HP handles communications between processes on their A class machines running HP-UX 11i. I was hoping someone may have encountered the same or a similar problem and had come up with a work-around for it.

Re: Tcl process goes to sleep

jeffh — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:36:19 -0700

There is nothing in the description which would explain any kind of change in Tcl's behavior as perceived. Are you sure that something isn't causing the event loops to run and that perhaps you need an explicit exit?

The one change I would make to your script is to try converting the split/read into a while/gets. It sounds like you may be stuck in the read, which would be expecting an EOF and not getting it.