Dear Experts, I am new to perl and I really need your help. I need your help for a perl DBD:sybase module i am using.
I am trying to connect to a MS SQL Server from a linux server. Below are the details and the error message. Request you to let me know how I can fix it. I will provide any more logs which you may require. For now, below are the details. Thank you very much. Looking forward for your assistance. Brief Description I have freetds, DBI and DBD:Sybase installated. When i TSQL to a sql server is works fine, but when i try to connect form a perl script it fails with the error "REquested server name not found". by testing i have noticed it may be using $HOME/interfaces file instead of freetds.conf file. cat /etc/*release Kernel Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Kernel Architecture: x86_64 Packages Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) [sybase@1636541cllapp15 ~]$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-402.el5, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux x86-027.build.eng.bos.redhat.com 2.6.18-402.el5 #1 smp thu jan 8 06:22:34 est 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DDEBUGGING=-g -Dversion=5.10.1 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl5 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib64/perl5 -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5 -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl -Dinc_version_list=5.10.0 -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dusesitecustomize' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-14)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector' libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.12' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Built under linux Compiled at Mar 13 2015 07:49:15 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/usr/local/lib64/perl5:/usr/lib64/perl5" @INC: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 . [sybase@1636541cllapp15 ~]$ [sybase@1636541cllapp15 ~]$ tsql -C Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script) Version: freetds v0.91 freetds.conf directory: /etc MS db-lib source compatibility: yes Sybase binary compatibility: yes Thread safety: yes iconv library: yes TDS version: 4.2 iODBC: no unixodbc: yes SSPI "trusted" logins: no Kerberos: no [sybase@1636541cllapp15 ~]$ $ tsql -UXXXXXX -S XXXXXX Password: locale is "C" locale charset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968" using default charset "ISO-8859-1" 1> #!/usr/bin/perl # $ENV{'FREETDSCONF'}='/opt/sybase/etc/freetds.conf'; print $ENV{'FREETDSCONF'}; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Sybase:server=XXXXXXX", "XXXXXXX", 'XXXXXXX'); die "unable to connect to server $DBI::errstr" unless $dbh; $dbh->do("use tempdb"); $query = "SELECT * FROM master..sys.sysusers"; $sth = $dbh->prepare ($query) or die "prepare failed\n"; $sth->execute( ) or die "unable to execute query $query error $DBI::errstr"; $rows = $sth->rows ; print "$row rows returned by query\n"; while ( @first = $sth->fetchrow_array ) { foreach $field (@first) { print "field: $field\n"; } } ERROR -------- DBI connect('server=XXXXXXX,','XXXXXXX',...) failed: OpenClient message: LAYER = (6) ORIGIN = (8) SEVERITY = (5) NUMBER = (3) Server XXXXXXXXXX, database Message String: ct_connect(): directory service layer: internal directory control layer error: Requested server name not found. at ./test.pl line 10 unable to connect to server OpenClient message: LAYER = (6) ORIGIN = (8) SEVERITY = (5) NUMBER = (3) Server wsvmvsysSQT01, database Message String: ct_connect(): directory service layer: internal directory control layer error: Requested server name not found. Respectfully, Sumanth