Hi,
I installed a number of scripts that work quite well on my server but I do get an error message "Sorry, can't open database file." The directoery database as well as the file database.txt have 644 permissions. Here is part of the script: 

sub search_files {
    if ($USE_DBM) {
        while (($file, $file_path) = each(%f_file_db)) {
            search_contents($file, $file_path);
        }
    } else {
        my $file_count = 0;
        open (FILEDB, $DATABASEFILE) || die "Sorry, can't open databas
+e file.\n";
        foreach (<FILEDB>) {
            $file_count++;
            ($f_file_db{$file_count}, $filenames_db{$file_count}, $f_d
+ate_db{$file_count},$f_size_db{$file_count},$f_termcount_db{$file_cou
+nt},$descriptions_db{$file_count},$titles_db{$file_count},$contents_d
+b{$file_count},$alt_text_db{$file_count},$meta_description_db{$file_c
+ount},$meta_keywords_db{$file_count},$meta_author_db{$file_count},$li
+nks_db{$file_count}) = split /\t/, $_;
            my $filepath = $f_file_db{$file_count};
            search_contents($file_count, $filepath);
        }
        close(FILEDB);
    }
}

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I appreciate any and all suggestions of a possible solution. Thanks,
Karl

In reply to Database file does not open by Karlmann

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