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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!marlin.ucsf.edu!overload.lbl.gov!news.emf.net!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.netkonect.net!knews.uk0.vbc.net!news.uk0.vbc.net!neptune.fast.net.uk!sean From: sean@neptune.fast.net.uk (Sean B Purdy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: popper port - BULLDB Date: 25 Oct 96 15:23:04 GMT Organization: the beach.... Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3270db58.0@news.fast.net.uk> Reply-To: sean@fastnet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: news.fast.net.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29930 comp.mail.misc:31291 Has anybody successfully used the bulletin system with a central database in the FreeBSD 2.1.5 port of popper? bull.db gets made when I log into port 110 and read a bulletin. However, it doesn't get updated - the next time I telnet to port 110 I get "Unable to open Bulletin database" and bull.db is still 0, as well as the .pag and .dir files. Any ideas? Is it permissions related or something to do with differing versions of db/dbm? Thanks, Sean -- Sean B Purdy, system administrator sean@fastnet.co.uk > to post: perchance to flame: ay, there's the rub; > For after that post what flames may come - bearpaw@world.std.com (bearpaw)