Connecting to Mysql database from plugins

[Andreas Ericsson]

Lawrence, Lynne wrote:
> Jaya,
> 
> - Did you install MySQL-devel-4.1.7-0.i386.rpm?
> - On my system, mysql.h is installed in /usr/include/mysql - check that your
> file is there,     if not, query the rpm and find out where it put it.

Good advice.

> - Make sure that the directory containing mysql.h is listed in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.
> 

Bad advice. /etc/ld.so.conf controls the dynamic link loader, so adding 
the directory in which mysql.h resides won't help a single bit. Adding 
the directory where libmysqlclient.so.* resides would, however.

More advice to the original poster in the original message.

> Hope this helps,
> 
> Lynne Lawrenc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of
> Jlnarayanan00 at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:06 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Connecting to Mysql database from plugins
> 
> 
> Hi ,
>         Our application  is such that our plugin needs to connect to Mysql
> database to get the data.In the root directory of the linux server on which
> nagios is being installed we have  the following files, 
> MySQL-client-4.1.7-0.i386.rpm
> MySQL-devel-4.1.7-0.i386.rpm
> MySQL-server-4.1.7-0.i386.rpm
> MySQL-shared-compat-4.1.7-0.i386.rpm
> In the new plugin we tried, we have given the statement #include "mysql.h"
> (header file that contains the prototypes and variables required for MySQL).
> 
> But while giving the "make all" command for the plugins we are getting an
> error as 
> "mysql.h: No such file or directory".
> 
> what are the steps we need to do to overcome this. Can any body help us in
> this issue. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jaya
> 
>  
> 
> 
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