Centos - SYBASE
 

Hi there.

I'm attempting to get freetds and sybase up and running on my centos server, mainly for nagios - MSSQL checks. I've installed freetds freetds-devel ok but am having issues getting SYBASE installed. I've had a go via cpan but get a failure on the sybase environment variable. I've set it to /etc where the conf file is located as well as trying /urr/lib64 for the tds libs, but no joy. Has anyone had much luck with this on centos?

export SYBASE=/etc
[root@nagios ~]# echo $SYBASE
/etc

cpan DBD::Sybase


CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.15)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:44:17 GMT
Running install for module 'DBD::Sybase'
Running make for M/ME/MEWP/DBD-Sybase-1.09.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.48)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.024)
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/ME/MEWP/DBD-Sybase-1.09.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.58)
DBD-Sybase-1.09/
DBD-Sybase-1.09/Sybase.xs
DBD-Sybase-1.09/README
DBD-Sybase-1.09/BUGS
DBD-Sybase-1.09/PWD.factory
DBD-Sybase-1.09/Makefile.PL
DBD-Sybase-1.09/dbdimp.h
DBD-Sybase-1.09/README.vms
DBD-Sybase-1.09/dbdimp.c
DBD-Sybase-1.09/CHANGES
DBD-Sybase-1.09/Sybase.pm
DBD-Sybase-1.09/README.freetds
DBD-Sybase-1.09/eg/
DBD-Sybase-1.09/eg/README
DBD-Sybase-1.09/eg/Show.cgi
DBD-Sybase-1.09/eg/dbschema.pl
DBD-Sybase-1.09/eg/check-space.pl
DBD-Sybase-1.09/dbivport.h
DBD-Sybase-1.09/META.yml
DBD-Sybase-1.09/Sybase.h
DBD-Sybase-1.09/CONFIG
DBD-Sybase-1.09/dbd-sybase.pod
DBD-Sybase-1.09/MANIFEST
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/main.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/multi_sth.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/xblk.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/screen.jpg
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/_test.pm
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/base.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/autocommit.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/thread.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/exec.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/place.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/xblob.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/login.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/fail.t
DBD-Sybase-1.09/t/nsql.t
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.71)

CPAN.pm: Going to build M/ME/MEWP/DBD-Sybase-1.09.tar.gz

Can't find the lib directory under /etc! at Makefile.PL line 118, <IN> line 44.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL]
MEWP/DBD-Sybase-1.09.tar.gz
/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- NOT OK
Running make test
Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
Make had some problems, won't install

I doubt very much that you installed Sybase to /etc ..

.. is Sybase actually installed ?

Well... I'm attempting to install the Sybase perl module via cpan.... I've installed freetds and attempted various locations for the sybase environment variable. The library files for freetds are in /usr/lib64, but changing the environment variable to this doesn't clear it up.

Most searches online i've found tell you to set it to /usr/local/freetds.... I've tried making symlinks to here from the library file locations. Still no joy.

Try the Perl gurus over at www.perlmonks.org