please i need some tools to test database server on linux on wan is active
or not.

i dont have installation on this pc and dont have odbc driver.

please help how to do it.

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:55:43 +0200, ja wrote:

> please i need some tools to test database server on linux on wan is
> active or not.
>
> i dont have installation on this pc and dont have odbc driver.
>
> please help how to do it.

You can use telnet to connect to the host/port that the db server listens
to.

If you get a connection then the db server is up...

Michael
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Michael Peppler [TeamSybase] mpeppler@peppler.org - http://www.peppler.org/
Sybase DBA/Developer
Sybase on Linux FAQ: http://www.peppler.org/FAQ/linux.html

and you get a nice confusing errormessage in the ase server errorlog :-)

Agreed... but if you don't have a Sybase client then I guess you don't
have much choice ... :-)

Michael

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:54:41 -0700, michael.peppler@gmail.com wrote:

> Agreed... but if you don't have a Sybase client then I guess you don't
> have much choice ... :-)
>
> Michael

True, but had a couple of times customers panicking after seeing that
message, so thought I should mention it.

joop

You can write a java standalone using Sybase JDBC.

species8472 wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:54:41 -0700, michael.peppler@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Agreed... but if you don't have a Sybase client then I guess you don't
> > have much choice ... :-)
> >
> > Michael
>
> True, but had a couple of times customers panicking after seeing that
> message, so thought I should mention it.
>
> joop