RE: [mv] what causes .gdbm to rebuild?

["kenshin" <kenshin@planetanime.com>]

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I believe that the gdbm files aren't created until the first time they are
accessed by minivend.  The same goes for any indexes that it tries to
create.

mike k.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Randy A. Katz
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 12:27 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com; minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: [mv] what causes .gdbm to rebuild?
>
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> ******    message to minivend-users from "Randy A. Katz"
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> Hi,
>
> Sorry, but the urgency is thus: I need to have a handle on how to add,
> update, remove products and the categories they go into
> before I can use
> Minivend. I noticed that after adding a few products and
> restarting a few
> times (or now perhaps it was after I did a search in the
> demo) that the
> products.asc.8 was built and then the category search would
> work, so I need
> to know precisely what triggers that, and I thought I would
> get it without
> having to comb through a lot of source code. I have already
> started reading
> the source for my answers.
>
> I also would like to know how to get a report of categories
> and products
> under them on the screen:
>
> Category
> 	product 1
> 	product 2
> Fruit
> 	Orange
> 	Apple
> Cars
> 	GMC
> 	Chrysler
> 	Porsche
>
> etc...
>
> At 09:37 PM 1/25/00 -0700, Ryan Hertz wrote:
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> >
> >At 08:47 PM 1/25/2000 , you wrote:
> >>******    message to minivend-users from "Randy A. Katz"
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> >>
> >>Someone,
> >>
> >>Please answer this question, or flame me, or something? Is
> this getting to
> >>the list???
> >
> >Oh, you're hitting the list just fine.  I thought that the
> answer was
> >"restarting minivend."  However, it is possible that it
> doesn't occur until
> >Minivend is asked for a page.  It is possible that
> reconfigure would also
> >rebuild the gdbm.  You really don't need to ever delete the
> gdbm files
> >unless you've corrupted it somehow.  You mention
> products.asc.8, that
> >sounds like an index built on your 8th field?
> >
> >I am wondering what could be so urgent about this question? :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thank you,
> >>Randy Katz
> >>
> >>At 11:54 PM 1/24/00 -0800, Randy A. Katz wrote:
> >> >******    message to minivend-users from "Randy A. Katz"
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> >> >
> >> >Can someone please answer this? I'm sure you all know the
> answer but I'm
> >> >stuck over here.
> >> >
> >> >Thank you,
> >> >Randy Katz
> >> >
> >> >At 05:35 PM 1/24/00 -0800, Randy A. Katz wrote:
> >> >>******    message to minivend-users from "Randy A. Katz"
> >> ><randyk@ccsales.com>     ******
> >> >>
> >> >>Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >>What causes the products.asc.8 & products.gdbm to
> rebuild? I tried
> deleting
> >> >>them and then restarting the minivend process and they
> were still not
> >> >>built. Then I went and edited something in pages,
> restarted minivend, and
> >> >>they were rebuilt, is there a command which does this?
> >> >>
> >> >>Thank you,
> >> >>Randy Katz
> >> >>-
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