Creation Password prompt

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:00:24AM -0800, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
> To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
> Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Creation Password prompt
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:39:38AM -0800, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> >> To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
> >> Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:12 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Creation Password prompt
> >>
> >>
> >> > Quoting Enrique Arredondo (Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:32:46 -0800):
> >> > [...]
> >> >> >> > I'm moving a database from one old SCO box to my current one but
> >> >> >> > after copying all the files using ftp  to the new box , I get 
> >> >> >> > this
> >> >> >> > prompt all the time:
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Enter Creation Password for 'bay.WRITEUP'
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > How can I get rid of that prompt ?
> >> > [...]
> >> >> > if he's getting prompted for a creation password on files that he 
> >> >> > was
> >> >> > not getting before, chances are something got corrupted in the copy,
> >> >> > so the question is how did he copy all the files via ftp to the new
> >> >> > box.
> >> > [...]
> >> >> I copied all of the files using tarball, and still getting the damn
> >> >> "enter creation password" , I copied from an SCO unix old machine into
> >> >> REDHAD linux filepro installation and it works flawless, but then 
> >> >> after
> >> >> I tar and move from linux to the New SCO 5.0.7 box I start getting all
> >> >> the errors. I wonder if the restore I did on the linux from tape was
> >> >> the trick to success ?
> >> >
> >> > As long as the file hasn't changed from the original system to the new
> >> > system (and tar shouldn't change anything in a file), there is nothing
> >> > in the above description that would cause a creation password to appear
> >> > on a filePro file.
> >> >
> >> > Can you give the exact steps you used, and exactly when/where you get
> >> > the "enter creation password" prompt?  ("I get this prompt all the
> >> > time" isn't very accurate.  For example, I doubt that you get such a
> >> > prompt at the main filePro menu.)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi, Here's what I did, I restored from Tape all the files from the OLD 
> >> SCO
> >> box into the current SCO 5.0.7 which has filepro configured already 
> >> working
> >> great.
> >> Then I changed the name for all the files that I restored to something 
> >> that
> >> makes them different from the others, like I added the prefix "bay." , so 
> >> I
> >> ended up with all filepro names being "bay.inventory" etc.....
> >
> > **** BINGO!!! ****
> > The devil is in the details.  Did you do this via some operating system
> > level commands (e.g. mv)?  You must rename with the fpcopy filepro
> > utility program, as there is stuff coded into the "map" file which
> > relates the creation password to the filepro file name via some black
> > magic.
> >
> > If you did use fpcopy, then there is a bug somewhere that you'd have
> > to report to fp-tech.  If you did not, then that is where you went
> > awry.
> >
> > -joe
> >
> 
> Can I do a batch using fpcopy ?  is there an argument that will let me do it 
> ?
> 
> ls /usr2/appl/filepro/inv* | while read line
> do
> fpcopy $line xx.$line
> done

no, sorry, fpcopy doesn't even take command line arguments.

if you wanted to get really fancy, you could script something to
pipe to STDIN, but i'd not recommend it.

if this has nothing to do with other stuff in your filepro directory
and you are afraid of files named the same, why not just have 2 different
application directories (and point with PFDATA/PFDIR) and leave the 
file names alone?
 
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-Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
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