FreeTDS Development Group

[Norman Palardy <palardyn AT mac.com>]

Ouch ...
what I'm building is a simple tool that can attempt to log in to any 
server.
It will probably fail on the vast majority and I expect that

But, since the Sybase DBLib would call the message or error handler I 
could check the codes there and see if a failed login was the reason 
these were being called. If that's the case then the server is up and 
refusing this login which is OK

However, if the FreeTDS DBLib doesn't work that way how would you 
suggest I try the server to "ping" it

Essentially that's all I need.

I suppose I could parse the interfaces file myself and try and simply 
open a socket to that server and port and see if that gets refused

On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 07:19  PM, Brian Bruns wrote:

> I guess I should mention that this only affects messages sent without a
> valid database connection.