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You wrote:

Since i am not able to access the database the possiblities for the error may be due to

Database Name
Database user name.
Database passwd.

I guess Database host is missing (or at the wrong place of your command line), since the error message comes from the unix utility host - and I guess you are invoking a shell script...

Is this perl related in any way?

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In reply to Re: Database connection error by shmem
in thread Database connection error by valavanp

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