Moving Bayes DB to Another System

[Randal, Phil]

Just migrate to Fedora Core 1 and save loads of money.  It is happily
working here.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Nathan Johanson
> Sent: 25 November 2003 15:35
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Moving Bayes DB to Another System
>
>
> Thanks Joshua,
>
> Good call. Besides the DB_File perl module, I should probably
> make sure
> I'm running the same version of the DB3 package as well.
>
> For reasons beyond my control, we're holding off on RHEL 3
> and migrating
> from RH 7.2 to RHEL 2.1 (to buy a few more years of errata).
> From what I
> can tell, all of the packages between these two distributions
> are nearly
> identical.
>
> Nathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hirsh, Joshua [mailto:joshua.hirsh at PARTNERSOLUTIONS.CA]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:20 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Moving Bayes DB to Another System
>
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
>  I assume your moving to RHEL 3 from RHL 9?
>
>
>  I think you would only run into problems if you switched the
> DB format
> of
> the Bayes files. Ie: Switching to DB_File from another
> format. Assuming
> you
> had the DB_File perl module installed on the old server, and
> the version
> is
> the same on the new server, it should be a clean move.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
> -Joshua
>