bsddb module woes

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> I found some hints from people having similar problems. They suggest
    >> using db_dump185 and db_load to convert the db files. My problem is:
    >> 
    >> % db_dump185 nodes.user
    >> db_dump185: nodes.user: Invalid argument
    >> 
    >> We're now going to try to dump the dbs using a system with redhat 6.2
    >> installed...

    Richard> And this has solved our problems. But there's got to be a
    Richard> better way than this... blech

Richard,

Sleepycat's dump/load program names leave a bit to be desired.  Sounds like
you were migrating from libdb2 to libdb3.  I think you want db2_dump
followed by db_load.  db_dump185 is for dumping a libdb1 database.  Assuming
you are running bash with command line completion enabled, try typing "db2_"
or "db_", then hitting the TAB key.  You should see a number of interesting
db_* and db2_* programs:

    % db_
    db_archive     db_dump        db_printlog    db_upgrade     
    db_checkpoint  db_dump185     db_recover     db_verify      
    db_deadlock    db_load        db_stat        
    % db2_
    db2_archive     db2_deadlock    db2_load        db2_recover
    db2_checkpoint  db2_dump        db2_printlog    db2_stat

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