FreeTDS Development Group

[Daniel Fazekas <fdsubs AT t-online.hu>]

On Jul 22, 2005, at 6:56, dspada AT iinet.net.au wrote:

> However when I run the
> following command (which I believe bypasses all config files) it just
> doesn’t "do" anything.
> muffin:/home/dan# tsql -H sqld02.dept.domain -p 445 -U username -P  
> password
> locale is "C" locale charset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"
> It doesn’t give me a prompt of any kind, all I get is nothing. I  
> can type in it
> freely until I Ctrl-C out of it. It is interesting to note that no  
> matter what
> user/pass I put in there, it does the same thing.

I think the likely explanation is that you compiled FreeTDS with its  
default settings, in which case TDS version 5.0 got built in as the  
default choice, which is only supported by Sybase servers and not MSSQL.

Just one of the reasons why you really should not try bypassing the  
config files. They are there so you could set things such as this TDS  
protocol version. :)

Anyway, prepend TDSDUMP=stdout to your tsql command so that it looks  
like this:
TDSDUMP=stdout tsql [...]

Then you'll see more details about what's going on than you'd like to  
know. :)
You might even like to try TDSDUMPCONFIG=stdout

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fds