perlquestion ricksquatch <P>I've done the SuperSearch, and the reg'lar Google thing, but nothing hss clicked,as of yet. I'm hoping this will get the ball rolling, so to speak. <p> <code> BEGIN { $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}="/export/home/riedward/oraclient"; $ENV{TNS_ADMIN}="/export/home/riedward/oraclient"; $ENV{NLS_LANG}=""; $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}="/lib:/usr/lib:/export/home/riedward/oraclient/sdk:/export/home/riedward/oraclient"; $ENV{PATH}="/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/lib:/export/home/riedward/oraclient"; $ENV{PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}="/export/home/riedward/perl5"; $ENV{PERL_MB_OPT}="--install_base /export/home/riedward/perl5"; $ENV{PERL_MM_OPT}="INSTALL_BASE=/export/home/riedward/perl5"; $ENV{PERL5LIB}="/export/home/riedward/perlmodules:/export/home/riedward/perl5/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris-64int:/export/home/riedward/perl5/lib/perl5"; } use DBI; use DBD::Oracle; </code> If I set each of the listed env vars in my .profile, all is well. If I don't, and only set them in my script, then I get the dreaded DBD::Oracle error: <code> Can't load '/export/home/riedward/perlmodules/sun4-solaris-64int/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libclntsh.so.10.1: open failed: No such file or directory at /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/DynaLoader.pm line 230. </code><p> I've been messing with this for a while now, so the paths may be a bit convoluted. Any insights are worth beer....