Hi: I'm a new to this and was hoping y'all might be able to shed a little light on a utterly odd error that has just popped up. I'm writing a plain jane cgi that takes user entered information, parses it, checks an oracle database, then decides what SQL statement it needs to execute. The problem is in the check. ($x, $y, $z) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sqlCmd); Essentially I'm checking to see if any part of the material exists in the database. Here's the strange part, it exits with Inappropriate ioctl for device The sql command executes flawlessly in SQLPlus. I'm using perl 5.6 Any ideas? thanks, tom.

In reply to cgi oracle ioctl error by tommcneill

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