I'm writing a script which will convert the gdbm files used by wreq to the MySQL files used by BugZilla, but am having a serious problem. I can't seem to open the gdbm files for reading. Here's where the problem is: # !/usr/local/bin/perl -w use diagnostics; # A bunch of currently undefined stuff was here # Remove Before Flight &reqTester; # This is just to get the format/layout used by wreq # so we know what we are dealing with sub reqTester() { use GDBM_File; use Fcntl ':flock'; # We'll setup a few variables for use in this function my %dbmFile; my $filename='1/active'; # First we'll tie the database $db = tie %dbmFile, 'GDBM_File', $filename , &GDBM_READER, 0444 or die "Unable to initialise database: $!\n"; $fd = $db->fd(); # This gets us a file descriptor # Lets carefully open() the fle descriptor to get a # Perl filehandle open DATAFILE, "+<&=$fd" or die "Unable to safely open file: $!\n"; # Next we need to lock the database in shared mode, # since we're just reading it, that's all we need # at this point print "Aquiring shared lock..."; flock(DATAFILE, LOCK_SH) or die "Unable to aquire shared lock: $!\n"; print "Lock aquired, Ready to read database\n\n"; # Lets dump the database so we can see what we have foreach my $key(keys %dbmFile) { # We'll just make the output pretty by double underlining # each key, and give it one extra double underline print "$key\n", ("=", x (length($key)+1)), "\n\n"; # Now print the value for each key print "$dbmFile{$key}\n\n"; } # Close the database undef $db; untie %dbmFile; # We're all done now exit; } About 98% of the above function comes from the 'Programming the Perl DBI' book. The problem is when I run this script I get the following error message: Uncaught exception from user code: Unable to initialise database: main::reqTester called at ./wreq-mysql.pl line 44 Commenting out the 'use diagnostics;' line only results in the removal of the first and third lines in the error message. Is there a reason why $! doesn't contain any information here? Thanks in advance, -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer ============================= Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]