dbmopen(%hash, $config_file, 0666) 
   or die "Couldn't open DBM: $!";

##</code><code>##

use NDBM_File;
use Fcntl;

tie(%hash, 'NDBM_File', $config_file, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640)
   or die "Couldn't open NDBM: $!";

##</code><code>##

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';