What is the bareword param there for? Shouldn't this be a hash?

Are you checking for failure and printing an error message? That error message will probably help you a lot more than we can, given the information we have.

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

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Note that dbmopen has been "largely superceded by tie": 
use NDBM_File;
use Fcntl;

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

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If this is a CGI script you may need to examine the server error logs for the resulting error messages, or use something like CGI::Carp to send them to the browser: 
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

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In reply to Re: dbmopen does not work by Fastolfe
in thread dbmopen does not work by sinan

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