Hi monks, I have been tryin to use DB_FILE module in a few cgi scripts. but it wouldnt work. whatever the file is, i get an error saying "can't open the file". I have given the file permission as 0700. the path and everything are correct. So i feel the problem is with DB_FILE. from the mandrake CD, I tried to install the perl-DB_FILE, but while checking for dependencies, it says "couldn't find db". and the installation aborts. so i downloaded the db4-utils-4.1.25mdk..and tried to install it, it says "it is already installed". can anyone help me out with this plzz. tia Sorry, forgot to mention, while installing DB_FILE, this is the message "error: Failed dependencies: db is needed by perl-DB_File-1.808-1 libdb-4.2.so is needed by perl-DB_File-1.808-1". Is it necessary(hard and fast rule) to use the tie() mechanism, when using perl5. coz my little piece of code is

use DB_File;
use CGI;
use DirHandle;
use FileHandle;

dbmopen(%TEST, "/home/lab/history.db", 0666) or die "Can't open histor
+y file: $!";

while (($key,$val) = each %TEST) {
    print $key, ' = ', unpack('L',$val), "\n";
}
dbmclose(%TEST);
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when i run this it says "can't open history file: at test.pl line 7" Thanks in Advance