On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 22:11, drieux wrote: > On Dec 10, 2003, at 5:58 PM, Joel Newkirk wrote: > [..] > >> whenever I reach: > >> dbmopen (%PLRULES, "/var/szs/rules.dbm", undef) or die $!; > >> I die, with "No such file or directory". > [..] > > are you sure about that dbmopen() line? > > eg: > > perldoc -f dbmopen > > seems to suggest that DBNAME shoudl be > the 'name' without the Suffix, > > dbmopen (%PLRULES, "/var/szs/rules",0755) or die $!; > > because i'm a bit concerned that your dmbopen is actually > trying to find the file "/var/szs/rules.dbm.dbm" - depending > upon the underlying OS it is on.
Underlying OS is Linux, specifically Mandrake 9.2, with perl V5.8.1. I named it that way because I was migrating from a textfile named "rules" that originally held the regex rules. The actual files used are "rules.dmb.dir" and "rules.dbm.pag", created when I originally accessed the nonexistant DBM with: dbmopen (%PLRULES, "/var/szs/rules.dbm", 0644) or die $!; and it opens and reads without problems from the webmin CGI, but the precise dbmopen command that works in the webmin CGI fails in the console-command version. > but you might want to actually cross over and > look at doing a 'tie' - cf > > perldoc -f tie I thought that was what 'dbmopen' did for me, in this simplistic case of 'tie'. This is my first week with Perl, so I've got a way to go still... > ciao > drieux > > --- j -- "Not all those who wander are lost." - JRR Tolkien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
