Thanks, you're right. I have a local database and am using the bequeath
server to login; changing to use a network connect as you suggest avoids the
problem.
Aaron Saarela at Symantec suggested I add $SIG{ CHLD } = 'DEFAULT'; after
the Oracle connect to restore the default sig handler; this also corrects
it.
Peter Sands
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jardine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 November 2007 10:53
To: Sands Peter
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: Error always returned from system() after connecting to Oracle
10 .2 on Solaris 64 bit
On 07/11/07 13:31, Sands Peter wrote:
> Running perl5.8.3 compiled 32 bit with the Perl libraries, DBD 1.15,
> DBI
> 1.41 distributed with Oracle 10.2, I find that, having connected to
> Oracle within a perl script any subsequent system() calls return a -1
> error status, even simple commands like true. (First tried building
> and using DBD-Oracle-1.19, DBI-1.40 with the same results).
I think it likely that this is something to do with Oracle's handling of
SIGCHLD. I have a hunch that this might only happen if the connection is not
via Oracle*Net.
Is you database local? Are you connecting using the bequeather?
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Charles Jardine - Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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