DBD::Sybase not connecting - acts like it is not using FreeTDS

I have searched the archives and did not find an answer to my issue.

I have installed FreeTDS 0.91 on a SLES 11 server. This install works
fine because I can connect and query the MS-SQL database (dlus2) using
tsql.



As root, I set my SYBASE environment variable to /usr/local:



# echo $SYBASE

/usr/local



since the FreeTDS libs are in /usr/local/lib.



la /usr/local/lib

total 9928

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Feb 13 11:56 .

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    4096 Feb 13 10:58 ..

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1995840 Feb 13 11:56 libct.a -rwxr-xr-x  1
root root     925 Feb 13 11:56 libct.la lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root
14 Feb 13 11:56 libct.so -> libct.so.4.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root
 14 Feb 13 11:56 libct.so.4 -> libct.so.4.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root
1040101 Feb 13 11:56 libct.so.4.0.0

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2189636 Feb 13 11:56 libsybdb.a -rwxr-xr-x  1
root root     946 Feb 13 11:56 libsybdb.la lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root
 17 Feb 13 11:56 libsybdb.so -> libsybdb.so.5.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root
root      17 Feb 13 11:56 libsybdb.so.5 -> libsybdb.so.5.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1179261 Feb 13 11:56 libsybdb.so.5.0.0

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2376384 Feb 13 11:56 libtdsodbc.a -rwxr-xr-x
1 root root     996 Feb 13 11:56 libtdsodbc.la lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root
     19 Feb 13 11:56 libtdsodbc.so -> libtdsodbc.so.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx
1 root root      19 Feb 13 11:56 libtdsodbc.so.0 ->
libtdsodbc.so.0.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1236836 Feb 13 11:56
libtdsodbc.so.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      30 Feb  1 11:28
libtds++.so -> /usr/local/lib/libtds++.so.1.0

-rw-r--r--  1 root bin    89952 Feb  1 11:28 libtds++.so.1.0



I built the DBD::SYBASE (I tried this with “EXTRA_LIBS= “ and
“EXTRA_LIBS=-lnsck –lnsl” in CONFIG).

Everything seemed to go fine through the make install.

However, when I attempt a connection to the same server used for the
tsql test mentioned above, I get the following message when the
statement handle is executed:



DBD::Sybase::st execute failed: Server message number=7202 severity=11
state=2 line=1 server=DLUS2-SQL text=Could not find server 'dlus2' in
sys.servers. Verify that the correct server name was specified. If
necessary, execute the stored procedure sp_addlinkedserver to add the
server to sys.servers. at <path to perl script>/devices.pl line 19.

Can't Execute the shipping data SQL statement: Server message
number=7202 severity=11 state=2 line=1 server=DLUS2-SQL text=Could not
find server 'dlus2' in sys.servers. Verify that the correct server
name was specified. If necessary, execute the stored procedure
sp_addlinkedserver to add the server to sys.servers. at <path to perl
script>/devices.pl line 19.



I have never experienced this on other Linux installs.  Have you
experienced this and can you give me an idea why it is looking for the
sys.servers rather than using the server config in
/usr/local/etc/freetds.conf?

Contents of /usr/local/etc/freetds.conf:



> cat /usr/local/etc/freetds.conf

#   $Id: freetds.conf,v 1.12 2007/12/25 06:02:36 jklowden Exp $ # #
This file is installed by FreeTDS if no file by the same # name is
found in the installation directory. # # For information about the
layout of this file and its settings, # see the freetds.conf manpage
"man freetds.conf".



# Global settings are overridden by those in a database # server
specific section [global]

        # TDS protocol version

;       tds version = 4.2



        # Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes

        # (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system) ;
     dump file = /tmp/freetds.log ;       debug flags = 0xffff



        # Command and connection timeouts ;       timeout = 10 ;
connect timeout = 10



        # If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client

        # is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.

        # Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit

        text size = 64512





#Microsoft Manufacturing server

[dlus2]

        host = dlus2.<domain>

        port = 1433

        tds version = 7.0



#Microsoft Test server

[dlus9]

        host = dlus9.<domain>

        port = 1433

        tds version = 7.0





Thanks,

D