--- /dev/null
+#! /usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use DBI;
+package nms;
+
+BEGIN {
+ require "config.pm";
+ eval {
+ require "config.local.pm";
+ };
+}
+
+sub db_connect {
+ my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:" .
+ "dbname=" . $nms::config::db_name .
+ ";host=" . $nms::config::db_host,
+ $nms::config::db_username,
+ $nms::config::db_password)
+ or die "Couldn't connect to database";
+ return $dbh;
+}
+
+1;