Okay, I re-investigated the problem after it did also show up in one of my mailing lists... and after around 1h or searching on google and bash scripting, I arrived at the following solution.

it seems that perl can't access some library functions that it needs. Meaning: It doesn't have access to the mysql libraries and/or includes.

• You might want to do the following:
• Search for MYSQL, e.g.:
  • sudo find / mysql | grep mysql
• Depending on where mysql is installed, you get one location for the main file returned. E.g.:
  • /usr/mysql
• Now... take a look at your PATH, e.g.:
  • set | grep PATH
• Are the directories for the mysql main directory included in the PATH?
  If not you have two choices:
  1. add the mysql main directory to the path
     • PATH=$PATH:/usr/mysql
  2. add INCLUDE and LIBRARY tags for mysql
     • export MYSQL_INCLUDE="/usr/mysql/include"
     • export MYSQL_LIBRARY="/usr/mysql/lib"

Hope this helps.

Update: Added <code> tags around the "two choices" code snippets.

Also look @ Net::MySql module for machines which don't have a mysql client installed....

thanks for your research! sounds reasonable to me. but, it does not work anyway...
a few more questions you can easily answer me:
- i do not have to restart the system do i?
- my mysql is in /usr/local/mysql..../. i tried with the alias (which is /usr/local/mysql) and with the whole path. neither worked. maybe it helps to reinstall mysql to /usr/mysql?

i tried both ways, the PATH and the export. keep on trying. thanks for your help & patience!

sorry for the last anonymous post.
the question for the restart is not considering my acutal prob. (it did not help anyway.) i'm new to *nix-systems and used to restart the system every time i did something special on it (from windows). so the question is more general: when do i have to restart my system? never?