in reply to Berkeley DB Funkiness

I had a bunch of Berkley DB files crap out on me a week ago. Did this happen right after you installed perl 5.8? The DB version of Berkley may have changed. We did a system upgrade (solaris 8 -> 9) that messed up said DB file. hope that helps

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Re: Re: Berkeley DB Funkiness
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Mar 18, 2003 at 01:29 UTC
    The said DB file is not messed up (i hope you know this).
    Like the DB_File documentation says

    Note: The database file format has changed multiple times in Berkeley DB version 2, 3 and 4. If you cannot recreate your databases, you must dump any existing databases with either the db_dump or the db_dump185 utility that comes with Berkeley DB. Once you have rebuilt DB_File to use Berkeley DB version 2 or greater, your databases can be recreated using db_load. Refer to the Berkeley DB documentation for further details.


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