Rich,
Do you have export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 in the client
environment where perl is running?
-Mark
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:48, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We've just changed our charactersets on our 8.1.7.2 (and 8.1.7.4) DBs from
> US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1 using the Oracle-approved "ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER
> SET WE8ISO8859P1" and accompanying commands. Everything works like a champ,
> but our Perl::DBI connections now all cause an invisibile "ORA-1017 invalid
> username/password" error. The error never appears in the client -- the only
> reason I know this happens is because I'm auditing for it.
>
> Other than having our audit log tablespace fill up, this leaves me a little
> worried and I don't know how to track it down. Of course, since the apps
> all work without reporting the error we never caught it in our testing.
>
> The version of Perl is 5.005_03, the Oracle client is 8.0.5.0.0 on Solaris,
> and I don't know what version of DBI or DBD::Oracle. I've tested my much
> newer versions of Perl, Oracle client and DBI/DBD::Oracle under windows and
> no audit is generated. I've also connected using SQL*plus from the
> 8.0.5.0.0 client without audit.
>
> I'm going to try and debug this without affecting the production systems,
> but has anyone encountered this before?
>
> TIA!
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
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