db question

Andrew Adams <ala at merit.edu> writes
 * 
 * Tony, Marten, Daniel,
 * 
 * Do you guys have a way of having a test database system living decoupled fro
 * m
 * a production database system on the same machine?  We have a test.db databas
 * e
 * set up which we can query with 'whois -s TESTRR' and add data to by setting
 * the 'source' attribute to TESTRR.  The problem comes when running cleandb - 
 * it checks for conflicts by looking at the guardian files named in
 * ~/etc/asdir and mails out conflict notices to real people about problems
 * it thinks it's found.  But actually the problems are bogus 'cause it's 
 * comparing production guardian files to test data.
 * 
 * Does this make sense?

yes it does. This is typically one of these problems you find when
actually running the stuff. I will have to change this so that you can
turn on/off guarded field addition per database or set the TESTMODE
variable per database ... One idea to get around this for now is to
use a different config file for this test database with TESTMODE set.
You can use a different config by setting the environment variable 
RIPEDBCNF before you run any of the programs.

Sorry, this is all I can do for now, I'll look at changing the
software to cater for your problem.

-Marten



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