[R] RODBC: missing files? (Re: RODBC: how to set the data-source?)

[Oliver Bandel]

Oliver Bandel <oliver <at> first.in-berlin.de> writes:

[...]
> I assume for each entry in /etc/passwd until the one that os looked for,
> /etc/odbc.ini is opened once...
> ...maybe I should test this hypothesis... looks strange.
[...]

No, my loginname is in line 31 of /etc/passwd.

oliver at siouxsie:~$ grep -n "etc\/odbc.ini" LOG 
4006:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4024:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4042:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4310:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4311:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
4326:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4327:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
4342:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4343:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
4358:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4359:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
4374:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4375:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
4390:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4391:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
4406:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
4407:open("/etc/odbc.ini", O_RDONLY)         = 3
oliver at siouxsie:~$ grep -c "etc\/odbc.ini" LOG 
17


Looks nevertheless quite strange.

Ciao,
   Oliver