[rt-users] rt2-to-rt3-1.23 script problems.

[Drew Barnes]

Tim Suter wrote:

>OK....export finally finished.  Had near 25,000 tickets to export....but
>it's done.  
>
>Now, I am to the dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 configuration part.  Their is only
>one 'use lib' line in there pointing to /opt/rt3/lib which happens to be
>where my libraries are.  Should I add one or edit the existing one
>telling dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 where the rt2dump is?
>  
>

No need to edit anything for that (as I read your question).  Just execute
perl dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 DIRNAME        where DIRNAME is the rt2dump 
directory

>Tim
>
>On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:05 -0500, Tim Suter wrote:
>  
>
>>Modified the rt-2.0-to-dumpfile after following the instructions in the
>>README and after Drew clarified some stuff (thanks Drew!).  The ONLY two
>>lines I modified according to the instructions were the 'use libs'
>>directives.
>>
>>Following is the output when I tried to run rt-2.0-to-dumpfile:
>>
>>confused:~/rt2-rt3/rt2-to-rt3-1.23# sh rt-2.0-to-dumpfile /root/rt2-
>>rt3/rt2dump/
>>rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: use: command not found
>>rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: $: command not found
>>rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: =: command not found
>>rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: my: command not found
>>rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token `($'
>>rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: line 11: `die "You must specify an export dir"
>>unless ($export_dir_base);'
>>
>>I didn't think the following would make that much of a difference, but I
>>did it anyway....
>>
>>confused:~/rt2-rt3/rt2-to-rt3-1.23# sh ./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile /root/rt2-
>>rt3/rt2dump/
>>./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: use: command not found
>>./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: $: command not found
>>./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: =: command not found
>>./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: my: command not found
>>./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token `($'
>>./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile: line 11: `die "You must specify an export dir"
>>unless ($export_dir_base);'
>>
>>Anyone have the above issues?  
>>
>>I am trying to rt-2.0-to-dumpfile from a Debian(sarge) RT 2.0.13/Perl
>>5.6 install. I will then 'want' to dumpfile-to-rt-3.0 to a RHEL4 RT
>>3.2.3/Perl 5.8 install on a different box.
>>
>>Is it caused by Perl 5.6?  In what I am trying to do, what issues should
>>I look out for when I do dumpfile-to-rt-3.0?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tim Suter
>>
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Drew Barnes
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University of Cincinnati