We have a little *BSD box here that we are no longer getting support for. Among other things it is our SMTP gateway using Sendmail. I have the task of reverse-enbineering the alias file for it (it is built directly from a database that we do not have access too).

I wrote this;

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use DB_File;
use strict;

my %DB;
my $key;
my $val;

tie (%DB, "DB_File", "./igusers.db", O_RDONLY, 0644, $DB_HASH);

while (($key, $val) = each %DB) {

  print "$key = $val2\n";

}

untie(%DB);
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In hopes of it being simple. Ofcourse it is not... A sample of the output from $val looks like this;

mat071 = Ômat071*mat071ex group dlÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
+ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿexchforwardÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ¡ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
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From there I tried;

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use DB_File;
use strict;

my %DB;
my $key;
my $val;
my $val2;

tie (%DB, "DB_File", "./igusers.db", O_RDONLY, 0644, $DB_HASH);

while (($key, $val) = each %DB) {

  $val2 = ref($val);
  print "$key = $val2\n";

}

untie(%DB);
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but then $val2 has nothing in it. Can someone kick me in the butt and let me know what I am doing wrong here.

Thanks,

Kahn