APM: Problem with DB_File and tie'd hash

[Evan Harris]

Actually, for those of you who may be interested, the solution turned out
that DB_File only works with BDB 1.x format files, while 2.x/3.x/4.x seems
to require the BerkeleyDB module, and of course the newer Sendmail used a
later format.

And part of the confusion problem is I was using $! to get the error message
for the failed tie, and apparently a tie failure doesn't set $!, so I was
getting a cause for an error from a previous and completely unrelated
function.

Evan


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tim Peoples wrote:

>
> You probably just need to recompile DB_File.
>
> Tim.
>
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 19:28, Evan Harris wrote:
> > I have software that reads sendmail's access db using DB_File and perls tie.
> >
> > I just upgraded to a new version of sendmail (8.12.11), and now the tie is
> > failing with this message:
> >
> > Unable to open access.db file '/etc/mail/access.db': Inappropriate ioctl for device at ./relaydelay.test.pl line 1437.
> >
> > Anybody know what I need to update to fix this?  Are the db formats
> > different?  Does perl need to be recompiled using another db lib?
> >
> > Evan
> >
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