From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 15:47: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BD814C22 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs1.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.100]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #2) for FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org id 10Fcvw-0003Qd-00; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:56:56 +0000 Received: from RNCM-FS1/MAILQUEUE by fs1.rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 24 Feb 99 11:54:30 GMT Received: from MAILQUEUE by RNCM-FS1 (Mercury 1.44); 24 Feb 99 11:54:11 GMT Received: from rncm.ac.uk (193.63.96.102) by fs1.rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44) with ESMTP; 24 Feb 99 11:54:04 GMT Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 24 Feb 99 11:56:29 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 24 Feb 99 11:56:20 GMT Received: from brick (193.63.96.36) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 24 Feb 99 11:56:18 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Q: FreeBSD -> SQL Server with ODBC Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:56:16 -0000 Message-ID: <000001be5fec$af1d34c0$24603fc1@brick.it-dept.rncm.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2232.26 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, I've got a little 486SX running FreeBSD 2.2.5 which has so far managed to blow the socks of a P233 running WindowsNT. The Windows NT machine is used to run the college webserver, and is unbeleivably slow and flaky. The FreeBSD box is something I'm playing with at home, and is marginally faster than the NT machine - it's also rock solid. My plan is to ditch Windows NT and replace it with FreeBSD. Okay, so I won't have a fancy GUI but at least I won't have to stroll accross the office every time I want to tweak a setting. Besides, I've never did understand why a server needs to use 90% of it's resources just to give the administrator a nice screen to look at when it craps out. Unfortunately, my master plan has hit a slight snag. You see in order to get away with it everything has to seemingly work like it did before. This oviously gave rise to some problems. Most of these probelms were easily solved. However one remains.... We also have another NT machine running SQL Server. The current WebServer is able to query the SQL server via ODBC using a perl module (WIN32::ODBC). So, I need to access the SQL Server in a similar manner. I did some looking around and came to the conclusion that ODBC on FreeBSD was indeed possible. Having previously installed Perl5, I downloaded and attempted to install the following perl modules: DBI-1.06.tar.gz DBD-ODBC-0.20.tar.gz The first installed okay, the second started moaning about driver managers and drivers. I'm new-ish to FreeBSD and to unix and unfortunately I'm at the limit of my knowlege. Can some kind person take pity and give me some help? T.I.A. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message