Might have been a pid. I'll check on that later... Thanks for your help man. Really. FreeTDS core isn't thread-safe? I assume they're planning on fixing that soon... it's kind of important you know. I'll sure give it a shakedown. I think you (and the freeTDS guys) just acquired a new test site. -- Mark Hubbard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft Certified Professional "Knowledge is Power." -----Original Message----- From: Dossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: Re: Linux nsfreetds to MS SQL (long post) >On 2001.08.23, Mark Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There are 6 bytes in the log file. It reads 13029. That's all. Weird. > >Is that the log file, or the pid file? That looks like a pid to >me. > >> I put the $datasource back in to ns_db gethandle. Didn't work. Then I >> realized $datasource is supposed to be a pool name, not an actual datasource >> name (ns_db docs). So I changed where the form had markhpc to read mypool >> (thats my pool name) and voila! 23 rows affected! Thank you Dossy! > >Oh, duh, right. I'm an idiot -- I said you'd gotten that part >right. Heh. > >> Wow that was easy. It's just a matter of the right kind of hand-holding >> and/or docs to get the various pieces in place and working. I tell you, an >> RPM containing all these pieces already configured would be very good for >> spreading AOLsvr into the formerly-Windows world. > >Or, as I keep thinking I'll find the time, a web-based installation >wizard that runs within AOLserver itself that can be used to edit >the necessary AOLserver config. files ... > >Hal Heisler and I passed this idea back and forth very briefly a >couple of months ago (almost a year or more now? I lose track of >time) ... > >> There was one other technical question I had about the nsfreetds. Which >> call-level interface does it use going into freeTDS? The db-lib, ct-lib, or >> ODBC? The freetds docs say the ODBC isn't very stable yet. > >The nsfreetds driver uses TDS directly. I'm not too fond of using >DB-Lib or CT-Lib ... although I probably should have used CT-Lib. >I was afraid that CT-Lib wasn't thread-safe and didn't have time >to inspect the FreeTDS folks' code. Heck, even their TDS >implementation isn't thread-safe ... I avoid as much of that >as possible. > >Glad to hear you got it working! > >-- Dossy > >-- >Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
