Hi The script ( mentioned below ) works fine if I do a
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /OracleProd/oracle9i/lib/ before executing the script. But if I don't do that instead put it within the script like : $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} = "/OracleProd/oracle9i/lib"; it throws this error : DBI version is --> 1.13 install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load '/usr/local/bin/perl_5.6.1/ lib/site_perl/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle: libclntsh.so.9.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/local/bin/perl_5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/i686-linux/ DynaLoader.pm line 206. at (eval 1) line 3 Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3. at test2.pl line 18 the script is : #!/usr/local/bin/perl use File::Find; # All Perl DBI scripts must have this line use DBI; #use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types); #use DBD::Oracle; # Database Connection stuff $ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'}="/OracleProd/oracle9i"; $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} = "/OracleProd/oracle9i/lib"; print "DBI version is --> $DBI::VERSION\n\n"; $u = "ask"; $p = "a5k"; $dbh = DBI-> connect("dbi:Oracle:host=ap6002fems.google.com;sid=sidddb;port=1617", $u, $p, { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 } ) or die "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI-> errstr; $dbh->{LongReadLen} = 512 * 1024; $dbh->{LongTruncOk} = 1; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/