db under solaris

Dear All,

First of all: thanks for all your reports!
I am not sure what to believe now ... I did some further research.
I got a report from Chua Koon Teck at 20 Apr 1995 that it was possible to
run at least the whois daemon on Solaris 2.4 with perl5 (yes!):

> Anyway, I am using perl5.001 and it seem to be fine so far.  But you will
> need to edit the defines.pl and defaults.pl file under the lib
> directory.  The newer version of perl require a backslash before the @
> symbol. 

So Tony please also look at the defines.pl and defaults.pl files for
the @ signs (will of course be changed in the next distribution).

If you still don't succeed I am happy to help you further but then I need
some more details about error messages and of course I want to hear from 
Chua Koon Tek about the current state of their database.

Kind regards,

David Kessens
RIPE NCC Database maintainer

PS I don't think the db-wg is the platform for this kind of
   implementation detail questions. Let we first try to find out what
   happened and send a report to the db-wg when (un)successfull!

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 tonyb <tonyb at pipex.net> writes:
 * RIPE Database Manager wrote:
 * >
 * >
 * >Hi Tony,
 * >
 * >If you use perl4 and change the SOCK_STREAM variable to 2 instead of 1
 * >it should work. This value is used and hardcoded more then once in the
 * >code. In the next distribution this will be handled from the Makefile but
 * >that doesn't help you now ...
 * > 
 * Hi David, thanks for the reply, I had managed to find the cause of that
 * one. Unfortunately as guy davies has now confirmed the dbdoesn't work on
 * solaris :-(
 * 
 * We will have to wait for the next version. Any idea of the expected date
 * or release ?
 * 
 * Thansk 
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