Re: fixing problems in eGroupWare with MaxDB

Hi Thomas,

thanks for the answer :-)

Koetter, Thomas Theodor schrieb:
> Hello Ralf 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ralf Becker [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Montag, 25. Juni 2007 22:32
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: fixing problems in eGroupWare with MaxDB
>>
> [snip]
> 
>> I also noticed a strainge behavior of the odbc driver. Under openSUSE
>> 10.2 (I think the same is true for all SuSE versions) the odbc.ini is
>> usually in /etc/unixODBC. Placing it there does not work with 
>> MaxDB. It
>> only works if I symlink /etc/odbc.ini to 
>> /etc/unixODBC/odbc.ini. Took me
>> quite a while to find out ...
> 
> 
> From http://www.unixodbc.org/internals.html
> <qoute>
> The odbc.ini file contains a list of Data Sources and any properties for each. There are two types of odbc.ini files; 1) System and 2) User. The System odbc.ini file exists as /etc/odbc.ini while the user usually exist as ~/.odbc.ini.
> </qoute>
> 
> 
> If driver managers store the ini-files in other places, how should the driver know where to look?

So it's more a SuSE problem, that they moved the directory from /etc to
/etc/unixODBC.

Ralf

> 
> 
> With kind regards  Thomas
> 
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