[IRCServices] Panic / Segmentation fault?

[Andrew Church]

>On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:31:52PM -0000, Dr. K. Hawkes wrote:
>> I must say this is a bad idea for DB's with unencrypted passwords, but
>> apart from that I like that idea, would save me alot of pain and worry, my
>> backups are a cron'd FTP to a remote location.  Although for some odd
>> reason, the DB's don't like going to the remote location and seem
>> corrupted, this is being worked on ATM.
>
>I seem to have an experience regarding Services on other architectures.  Our
>main Services machine is of the x86 family.  Once I attempted to run a backup
>Services on a Mac platform.  Services claimed the databases to be corrupt. I
>do not know for sure that this is an endian and/or system related issue, but
>I would suspect that before DB corruption on my part.  It would be nice to
>have a confirmation that Services databases are not portable across platforms.

     Services databases ARE portable across platforms/endian differences,
and have been for ages (since 4.0).  I would suspect ASCII-mode transfers.

  --Andrew Church
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