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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 08:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Moving from Sun to FreeBSD on x86
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10205200818150.6896-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020520085330.M39304-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>

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On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jamie Ostrowski wrote:

>    We retired an old Sun machine here a while ago and moved the web sites
> over to 4.5 release on a x86 machine. We noticed that one of the sites
> that used a hashed database quit working. Someone mentioned that the bit
> order on Sun's is different than FreeBSD on x86 and that we may need to
> "re-index" the database. From what I can see, their database directory
> contains .pag and .dir files, and I am not much of a perl programmer, but
> the source calls the files with dbm. Has anyone run into this before? Not
> sure what to make of it.
> 
>       - Jamie

  The database will have to regenerated from the raw data.  .pag & .dir is
the old style dbm (ndbm).  FreeBSD has the same API, but will only create
a single file.

Tom


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