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In article <39160278.72617631@news.firstworld.net>,
  efinley@efinley.com wrote:

> Why not just use the stuff in Bundle::DBI from CPAN?  I don't recall
> the name of the modules, but there is one (two?) that allows you to
> set up a proxy on the box that has the DB running.  The proxy accesses
> the DB from localhost, but provides remote network access to the Perl
> DBI.

I've downloaded a a 164k DBI module from CPAN. Is there anything more I
need?  I don't understand how do I set the DSNs in ODBC up to use such
a proxy? Or it can be used by a perl on a client only? Does the proxy
listen to specific port all the time? The root might not like that :(,
and I'd have a restart problems (would have to use at to start such a
proxy).

This sound like a good moment for the following question...

Can I install/use Perl modules without having the root to install them
globaly? I guess I could do a 'perl Makefile.pl', and a make, too. I
also guess I could use some calling convention to call the module with
a given path, right? The thing that confuses me is that there are loads
of users asking the root to install some Perl modules taht they want to
use...


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