Chris,
It appears your missing the 'host' in your connection
DBI:mysql:$UserID:localhost",.......
>>On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:39:31 -0800 (PST), Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>I did. it dies with "unknown error" - hence my confusion.
>>
>>and for those who didn't catch it, the userid and database name are
>>identical (hence the double usage of $UserID in the connect parameters)..
>>
>>-Chris
>>
>>On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Colin Faber wrote:
>>
>>> To: Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> From: Colin Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Subject: Re: setup/DBI issues...
>>> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:16:49 -0700
>>>
>>> A little more information would be helpful, Such as pasting the exact
>>> error here.
>>>
>>> Chris Petersen wrote:
>>> >
>>> > ok, after several months away from working with mysql, I figured I should
>>> > get back into things.. anyway, the server is up and running, and I can
>>> > access it with the mysql client, but I get an "unknown" error whenever I
>>> > try to connect to it via perl DBI...
>>> >
>>> > I'm using:
>>> >
>>> > DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$UserID", $UserID, $DBPass);
>>> >
>>> > This works on other servers, and is not limited to one single script, so I
>>> > know it's a config issue on my part.. any help would be greatly
>>> > appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > -Chris
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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