Hi Thomas... Geographic proximity is a poor excuse, IMHO. If you have a non-root account on the machine, you should be able to install DBD::Oracle and DBD::Proxy. You may have to ask for a hole in a firewall, but that shouldn't be a huge obstacle since they're already prepared to allow you to connect to the Oracle server over the Internet.
Is there another machine at your site that you do control that you could install DBD::Oracle and DBD::Proxy on? Then you could install DBD::Proxy on your 32 bit PA-RISC machine and connect through it to the Oracle server. Otherwise, you're out of luck, I think. Gordon Dewis Production Officer Geography Division Statistics Canada (613)951-4591 -----Original Message----- From: PETAZZONI,THOMAS (Non-HP-Germany,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:59 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: :Oracle Hi, > Why can't you install DBD::Proxy and DBD::Oracle on the Oracle server > itself? Then you only need to install DBD::Proxy on your 32 > bit PA-RISC > machine. Simply because the Oracle database is located 1000km from here and we are not administrators of this system. We only have accounts on the database. Thomas
