FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Reinoud van Leeuwen [mailto:reinoud.v AT n.leeuwen.net]
> Sent: July 17, 2002 9:02 AM
> 
> I have experienced some trouble getting sqsh to connect to a 
> MS SQL server
> on FreeBSD.
> 
> In short: FreeTDS 0.53 does not work, 0.51 does.

Reinoud, 

0.51?  Late Bronze Age software?  

See the FAQ 

        "http://www.freetds.org/faq.html#Why is my TDS protocol wrong"

What may be happening:  0.53 is failing to pick up your protocol, failing to
log in, and segfaulting because of that.  The current
soon-to-be-released-as-a-major-motion-picture snapshot deals with that
scenario much more gracefully, BTW.  

Quick fix: export TDSVER=7.0 (or export TDSVER=4.2) and try sqsh again.
Your shell may vary, of course.  ;)

Regards, 

--jkl