>ya KAK-TO podklyuchilsya k mysql i perl CHTO-TO vydaet.
Chto mozhno na takoe posovetovat'?

Ya ispol'zuuy modul' DBI dlya connecta s mysql:
use DBI;
...
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db_name:$db_host:$db_port", '', '')
or die "Can't connect: $DBI::errstr\n";

Pri etom proinstallirovany moduli DBI i DBI::MySQL (Msql-Mysql-modules)

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