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

In reply to Dbmopen question by cajun

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