Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 15:58:55 -0500 From: Richard Scranton <scrantr@ix.netcom.com> To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: connecting to Sybase Message-ID: <346F5E8F.6727@ix.netcom.com>
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Sybase uses a multiple layer package consisting of Client Library, Net Library, and (optionally) DB Library. They have published a client kit for Linux as a totally unsupported free download. If you want to construct a cross-compiling environment for Linux executables (a.out) you should be albe to write Client Library applications that will run under FreeBSD's Linux emulation. Probably a better choice (among several non-optimal options) would be to write your stuff to run natively on the Sun, then split it with ONC RPC and run the part with the exposed interfaces on the FreeBSD web server and let RPC hide the fact that part of it is running remotely on the Sun box. O'Reilly has a book called "Power Programming with RPC" that you would find very helpful if you decided to go this route. Another quick and dirty option would be to run your SQL queries via an rsh'd session of isql. You can clean up the output via a piped awk process. Definitely not the most efficient method, but it would work for low volume queries. Good luck. -rs > > I need a way of connecting our FreeBSD webserver to a Sybase Database > (running on a Sun). I was hoping to use a perl script and Sybperl, but it > apears that Sybperl needs Sybase to be installed on the local machine (or > at least some of the libraries from the Sybase server). > > I believe there is something called OpenClient which is normal installed > on a machine to allow it to connect to a remote Sybase server. Anybody > know of anything like this for FBSD? Where would I find such a product? > -- __________________________________________________________________ Richard Scranton LDA SYSTEMS Information Management Consulting scrantr@ix.netcom.com Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Atlanta <http://www.netcom.com/~scrantr/>; <http://www.lda.com/columbus/>; <http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8c38c4cf>;
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