Steve Peters
10/22/2003 1:37:00 AM
Well, your big problem is that I do not believe that the Oracle client
libraries have been ported to OpenBSD. Without those libraries, you
will not be able to connect to Oracle.
Steve Peters
Evangeline South wrote:
> I'm cross-posting to Ruby & OpenBSD because I'm not sure which experts
> are best suited to help me with this... (And I'm tired of talking to
> the Oracle people who tell me to just move everything over to Linux or
> Win2k or Solaris!)
>
> Machine 1: Oracle 8i on Linux, Production box, running listeners, all
> is well there, it seems.
> Machine 2: OpenBSD. Some Ruby scripts, running fine, but need to
> query (through DBI or ?) the Oracle DB.
>
> Machine 1 and 2 are on a LAN, behind a firewall, so it should be some
> simple 192.168.xxx or hostnames to reference each other, but the
> software/drivers/whatever I need to run on the OpenBSD box eludes me!
> I've installed the DBI package for Ruby, with 7/8/9 drivers, but they
> don't want to install clean or start themselves because I suspect
> there's some underlying Oracle stuff that needs to go on the OpenBSD
> box first. Am I mistaken?
>
> Many thanks for any help!
>
> Evangeline