You probably don't have ORACLE_HOME set when the script starts. The best
way to handle it is to have it set before the script starts. Often you can
add it inside a BEGIN block:
BEGIN { $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = '/dir/dir/dir'; }
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hardy Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bruce W. Hoylman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "DBI User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tarou, Kirk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: ORA-06401 error
> Bruce W. Hoylman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > >>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Tarou <Tarou> writes:
> >
> I'm actually interested in this "Error while trying to retrieve text
> for error" message - I'm getting the same message for any Oracle error
> on an Oracle client machine. What more do I need, or what did I do
> wrong on the Oracle client install?
