On Dec 22, 2015 8:35 PM, "Donna Cote" <d-c...@tamu.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks, John, for your time.
>
> Here is the successful connect on the command line:
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>> $ /usr/bin/mysql -u ldmdbuser2 -pb7cb452be401724b9a1b ldmsurvey
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>> Reading table information for completion of table and column names
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>> You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
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>>
>> Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
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>> Your MySQL connection id is 5698
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>> Server version: 5.1.73 Source distribution
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>> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input
statement.
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>>
>> mysql>
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> My perl script reads a .config file which contains:
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>> $
>> cat /opt/ldmsurvey/scripts/.config
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>> ldmsurvey,ldmdbuser2,b7cb452be401724b9a1b
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>
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> The script's output is:
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>> $ ./gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl ldm1-log-sample.log
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>> debug 51 pre gather db config routine
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>> debug 58: post gather-db-config-routine, database=ldmsurvey,
userid=ldmdbuser2
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>> debug 65 pre attempt db connection with dbi:mysql:ldmsurvey ldmdbuser2
b7cb452be401724b9a1b
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>>
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>> DBI connect('ldmsurvey','ldmdbuser2',...) failed: Access denied for user
'ldmdbuser2'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at ./
gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl line 65
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>> Access denied for user 'ldmdbuser2'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at
./gather-details-n-do-db-inserts.pl line 65.
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>> $
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>
> 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:
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>> On 12/22/2015 5:36 PM, Donna Cote wrote:
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>>> 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).
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>>
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>> 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.
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>>
>>
>> --
>> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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