[Babase] converison v7

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Thu Feb 1 11:16:52 EST 2007


On 02/01/2007 08:48:29 AM, kfenn wrote:

> I've got the new DATA file loaded onto papio.  It should be in the  
> right place now... I overwrote all the tables in the DATA file.

The best procedure is to first delete everything in the DATA directory,
or maybe the whole database/ directory if your copying programs
and everything onto papio.  The reason is that for some reason
foxpro seems to like to change the names of some files.  This time,
we got members.DBF and census.DBF whereas before there was a
members.dbf and a census.dbf.  As a result there's _both_
a members.DBF and a members.dbf in DATA/.  This is ungood.
I can sort it out manually, but it'd be bad to make
a mistake.

   Even
> with Leah changing the permissions, I still got a message saying  
> "Encountered 54 errors during the transfer"  although each file reads  
> 'complete' in my ssh file transfer window.....so I guess they are  
> OK?  (While the transfer was occurring, there was a message by the  
> file reading "error chmod" so whatever 'errors' are occurring are  
> still related to the permissions.)

It seems that the errors are releated to the permissions.  Until we
figure out exactly what's going on, for cases where you're
passing the database back and forth to Leah it'd be best if
you both just used a new directory (not DATA/) so that
we're 100% certain to have no errors in what gets passed
back and forth.

The thing is, I don't see any particular problem with the
permissions....

> 
> No versions numbers this time.   Hopefully everything is in the right  
> place.  Let me know if you wanted them someplace else to make your  
> life easier.

Looks good.

I'm having trouble running the conversion at this moment
due to some oddity of Duke's network that makes all the
usernames and group names disappear and replaces
them with numbers.  This seems to happen at rare
intervals and fixes itself so I hope to get it running
soon.  I suppose it's remotely possible that this is related
to your error messages.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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