FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm having a hard time getting FreeTDS to work with Sybase 
> 11.5. I'm using the Debian unstable package for FreeTDS 
> (which is version 0.61) but I believe the same problem holds 
> true for v0.62.
> 
> When I connect to the server with sqsh, the login is 
> authenticated successfully but sqsh just sits there without 
> giving me the "1>" prompt, until I press ^C. After that, 
> everything (select, insert, and update
> queries) works fine. If instead of sqsh I'm connecting 
> through a non-interactive process (e.g. PHP script with 
> sybase-ct support), the process would wait indefinitely until killed.
> 
> This is how a sqsh session looks like:

This is a known bug of Sybase 11.x. There is a workaround for this
problem in 0.62

Freddy77