[DAS] Problems installing Lightweight DAS server

[Gosink, Mark (SEA)]

Hello all,
	I am having problem getting the server to function which I beleive
can be tied the environmental variables used by the default web account. I
hope someone can suggest a work-around. I'm trying to set up the system on a
sun-solaris box.
	During the testing of the installation of the software. I kept
getting an 'Could not open database' error. I changed the line (line #80 in
my version) in the das app subroutine 'openDB' from

my $db = eval { Bio::DB::GFF->new(@args) };
          to
my $db = Bio::DB::GFF->new(@args);

so that the apache error logs would be more helpful, and found the following
message:

install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load
'/comp/software/release/lib/perl/sun4-solaris/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for
module DBD::mysql: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: libz.so: open
failed: No such file or directory at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 206.
 at (eval 13) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 13) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
 at /comp/software/release/lib/perl/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi/caching_handle.pm
line 140
[Fri Oct 18 16:15:38 2002] [error] [client 10.128.220.25] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/www/mgosink/cgi-bin/das

I wrote this short script to test the connection:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -I/comp/software/release/lib/perl
use Bio::DB::GFF 1.02;
my @args = (-adaptor => "dbi::mysql");
push @args,(-dsn     => "dbi:mysql:database=dicty;host=localhost");
push @args,(-user    => "<myusername>");
push @args,(-pass    => "<mypassword>");
my $db = Bio::DB::GFF->new(@args);
print "DB - $db\n";

When I connect as myself it works fine; however when I connect as the
default web-user I get the above error message.

Has anyone seen this error before and/or have any suggestions on how to fix
it?
Thanks,
Mark


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