[Mimedefang] greylisting DB_File locking

-ray ray at ops.selu.edu
Wed Apr 28 14:38:36 EDT 2004


Andrea,

Thanks for the info.  I switched to DB_File::Lock and things seem to be
running fine.  How many records are in your greylistdb?  I accumulated a
little over 38,000 in the past 12 hours, and i'm wondering if i'm
stretching the limitations of the DB_File format.

ray
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrea Gabellini wrote:

> I saw the same error few month ago. I changed the locking mechanism using:
> 
> use DB_File::Lock;
> use Fcntl qw(:flock O_RDWR O_CREAT);
> 
> and opening the DB with the command:
> 
> $db = tie %GDB, 'DB_File::Lock', $DBFilename, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, undef, 
> $DB_HASH, 'write';
> 
> Andrea



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