FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On 22 May 2000, Hal Snyder wrote:

> "Guangbin Liu" <GLiu AT interland.com> writes:
> 
> > I tried to connect my MS SQL SQL 7.0 server using DBD::Sybase and
> > FreeTDS from Linux (Redhat 6.1). But I always can't connect to SQL
> > Server. The error message is "Unknown marker: 0!!", and the code
> > following connect wasn't executed at all. What this error message
> > means? Could you please review my code and help me connect to MS SQL
> > Server? Your kind help will be highly appreciated!
> 
> We have several FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems successfully talking to
> Sybase using freetds. One system, however, running FreeBSD-4.0,
> Perl-5.005_03, DBI-1.13, DBD-Sybase-0.22, and freetds-0.50, has
> exactly the problem you report.
> 
> The real puzzler is that we have another system running the same
> version of all the above, including the same OS release, and it does
> not have the problem. We have copied binaries for Perl and the rest of
> the module stack from the working system to the non-working one,
> duplicated the interfaces file, /etc/profile, and user's home
> directories, and the problem persists.

Interesting, have you set TDSDUMP to generate a tracefile?

Brian