FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon AT cclinic.com.au]
> Sent: September 5, 2002 10:37 AM
> > $<freetds>/interfaces :
> 
> > MY_SERVER
> >     query tli tcp /dev/tcp \x000207760b9f343250000000000000000
> 
> I don't have one of these. Does it go in the --prefix 
> directory (/usr in my 
> case) or the --sysconfdir directory (/etc)? What is the magic 
> hex number for?

That is the weirdest interfaces line I have ever seen.  What the heck is it
trying to say?  

http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x2192.htm

> > The <freetds>/interfaces file and the <freetds>/etc/freetds.conf are
> > alternatives in freetds.
> 
> Meaning that I only need one of them?

Yes.  FreeTDS searches your conf files, looking for a section matching the
servername you requested, in the following order:

#     1) check if a file was set programatically via dbsetifile() and
#        is in .conf format, if so use that,
#
#     2) otherwise, if env variable FREETDSCONF specifies a properly
#        formatted config file, use it,
#
#     3) otherwise, look in ~/.freetds.conf,
#
#     4) otherwise, look in @sysconfdir@/freetds.conf

Only after exhausting those possibilities does it revert to interfaces.  

--jkl


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