From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 20 9:54:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9011537B699 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 09:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 179oxG-0006bJ-00; Mon, 20 May 2002 08:20:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:19:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Jamie Ostrowski Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving from Sun to FreeBSD on x86 In-Reply-To: <20020520085330.M39304-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message