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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!itf1!mpeppler
- From: mpeppler@itf.ch (Michael Peppler)
- Subject: Re: sybperl under cron fixed!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.093049.517@itf.ch>
- Keywords: sybperl,cron
- Organization: ITF Management SA, Geneva, Switzerland
- References: <1992Sep11.210628.23332@fnbc.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:30:49 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Sep11.210628.23332@fnbc.com> jja@fnbc.com (Joseph Alotta) writes:
- >I was having a problem with sybperl running from cron.
- >
- >Especially if cron calls a shell that calls perl.
- >
- >I was getting bus errors at runtime.
-
- Ahem... looks like the error handling of Sybperl leaves a bit to be
- desired ;-) (not to mention DBlibrary's recovery code!)
-
- >
- >Randal Schwartz gets the credit for figuring out that sybperl
- >looks for DSQUERY to be set at startup.
- >
- >Put $ENV{DSQUERY} = MYSERVER; first line, even if you don't use
- >sybase in the script.
- >
-
- I guess I should document that!
-
- Michael
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