Re: Host command-PL/SQL

No, there is not a host command.

In 8.1.x there are 2 ways to do this.

1. Use an external library call. You write code in C that will call your script via fork() and execl(). ( I think this is mostly correct. not docs avail at the moment. ) This also requires an entry in listener.ora.
2. Use DBMS_PIPES to pass messages to an external daemon running outside the database. The daemon can be in C or Perl or darn near anything.

A perl example is a www.teleport.com/~jkstill/util

Jared

On Tue, 9 May 2000 cemail_at_sprintmail.com wrote:

>
> Is there a way, from a PL/SQL procedure to go to a host command?
> There is a script that we want to run that is in Unix.
>
> Oracle 8.1.5/Solaris 2.6
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Jared Still
Certified Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist ;) jkstill_at_teleport.com Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 17:45:43 CDT