On Friday, Nov 21, 2003, at 10:40 US/Pacific, Robert Brown wrote: [..]
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# open the username/password database or create it dbmopen(%passwd, $passwd_db, 0600) || die "cannot open $passwd_db: $!";
And here is what gets logged in /var/log/httpd/error_log:
[Fri Nov 21 12:12:59 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] cannot open /home/rj/chat/login.db: File exists at /var/www/cgi-bin/rj_chat_login.cgi line 109., referer: http://www.elilabs.com/~rj/chat/rj_chat_login.html
Obviously, from the viewpoint of perl 5.6.x programs, perl 5.8.0 has a very broken dbmopen. Of course the file exists! Its a passwoed database; you can't go creating that new every time you want to use it! So why can't it open it?
I guess the first question I would ask is which DB_FILE format were you using under 5.6.x that seems not to have arrived in 5.8.0.
the dbmopen()
I remember hoving some issue with dbm/ndbm...
perl the 'perldoc DB_File' it notes that if you are going to use the newer versions of Berkley DB 2.x or 3.X you will want to use BerkleyDB.
cf: <http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/BerkeleyDB-0.25/BerkeleyDB.pod>
It is possible that this has happened 'under the sheets' for you with the shift from 6.x to 9.x so you will need to essentially dump the old format into a new format, assuing that is the real issue here.
the alternative of course is the simpler problem of permissions, and that the web-server can not actually read the file. Do you have a piece of test code that merely opens and reads it?
ciao drieux
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