FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: James McGowan [mailto:jmcgowan AT luxurylink.com]
> Sent: December 2, 2003 2:00 PM
> > 
> > I issued:
> > 
> >     export TDSDUMP=/var/log/tdsdump
> > 
> > and the environment variable is present, however nothing is 
> > being logged. (I even did a reboot to load a new kernel.) 
> > Another quick question on logging... I've had:
> > 
> >     dump file append = /var/log/freetds
> > 
> > in freetds.conf for a while now, and again, no logging. 

One of two things.  

A) "dump file append" is a yes/no variable; the name of the log file is
determined by "dump file" or TDSDUMP.   That variable defaults to "no" and
would stay that way until a proper "yes" appears.  It may be your log file
is being overwritten.  Is there no file, or a zero-length file?  

(Hmm.  You're the second fellow today (and maybe the third all year) bitten
by an erroneous freetds.conf entry.)  

B) If there's no log file, and 
        1. "dump file = /var/log/freetds", and
        2. "/var/log/freetds" is a filename, and 
        3.  the process has permission to write to "/var/log", 

then I'd check your PHP (or apache?) executable with ldd(1) to make sure
FreeTDS is being linked in.  The log file is opened as soon as FreeTDS
begins searching for its configuration files.  

--jkl
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