Andrea, Thanks for the info. I switched to DB_File::Lock and things seem to be running fine. How many records are in your greylistdb? I accumulated a little over 38,000 in the past 12 hours, and i'm wondering if i'm stretching the limitations of the DB_File format.
ray =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrea Gabellini wrote: > I saw the same error few month ago. I changed the locking mechanism using: > > use DB_File::Lock; > use Fcntl qw(:flock O_RDWR O_CREAT); > > and opening the DB with the command: > > $db = tie %GDB, 'DB_File::Lock', $DBFilename, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, undef, > $DB_HASH, 'write'; > > Andrea _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
