RE: [Sheflug] HELP! Corrupted DBM

["David Morris" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Alex Hudson
> Sent: 08 April 2003 09:58
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] HELP! Corrupted DBM
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:27:05AM +0100, David Morris wrote:
> > Has anyone any suggestions for repairing or extracting data from
> > what appears to be a damaged DBM?
> > 
> > It's the authentication control on our web proxy server, so users
> > are a little irate at the moment!
> 
> Hmm, not sure how useful this will be, but I suspect that you've
> probably lost it all to be honest :(

Situation recovered (fortunately). I originally thought the whole lot
had corrupted. I couldn't get anything to attach to the DBM. It turns
out (I think) that it had got locked, although I don't know how.

Stoopid as it sounds, a reboot of the server has cured it.

> 
> If you know what type of DBM file it is, you could try using a Perl
> script to pull it all out - but there are several types of DB file,
> so you'd need to know which it was. Even then, I'm not overly sure
> it would work. Are we talking about Squid here?

Yes, I wrote a little PERL proxyauth (squid config) command to
validate users against an DBM and put some simple PHP pages together
to maintain the userlist and permit password changes.

Thanks for your response.

- -- 
D

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