MySQL: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual: Connector 1.4.5 locking ing a connector/odbc dsn on UNIX

MYSQL: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual: Connector 1.4.5 locking ing a connector/odbc dsn on UNIX

• odbcconfig GUI tool (HOWTO: odbcconfig)

• odbcinst

in some cases when using unixodbc , you might get this error:

 data source name not found and no default driver specified 

if this happens, make sure the odbcini and odbcsysini environment variables are pointing to the right ODBC. INI file. for example, if your ODBC. INI file is located in /usr/local/etc , set the environment variables like this:

 export odbcini =/usr/local/etc/ODBC. iniexport odbcsysini =/usr/local/etc