I was reminded a few days ago by one of merlyn's comments in Re: rss parser of a script he wrote that I used to use. It was the script he refers to as "classic column that sends email".

So I downloaded it, made the config changes, etc. The script runs perfectly the first time. No errors. The second run of the script I get

Cannot open %SAW for fox.rdf: No such file or directory at ./merlynrss
+.pl line 28.
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The dbmopen is not creating the .db file in the directory. So the error above is to be expected, I think. At first, I thought maybe it was a problem that dbmopen was no longer used, until I found Re: Is dbmopen() around in another form? from just a few days ago.

The only changes to merlyn's script were in the config section. It's apparently not a perms problem as the xxx.rdf file is created fine. Perldoc -f dbmopen tells me if the .db file is not there it will be created.

Any thoughts as to why the .db file(s) are not being created?

Thanks,
Mike