<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.3790.2759" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am pretty new to perl, and would like to understand why I am getting the following error when I run check_oracle_instance.pl natively from the linux shell:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>serv:~ > ./check_oracel_instance.pl -u nagios -p password -c mwm -t 51/55</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>DBD::Oracle initialisation failed: Can't locate object method "driver" via package "DBD::Oracle" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DBI.pm line 731.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Perhaps the capitalisation of DBD 'Oracle' isn't right. at ./check_oracle_instance.pl line 157</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>serv:~ ></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm sure some perl guru knows exactly what is wrong here, and could point me in the right direction.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=979474019-13102006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>