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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Subject: Re: sendmail 5.65c/IDA 1.4.4 - problem
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clu@malihh.hanse.de (Carsten Lutz) writes:

>I tried compiling sendmail5.65c/IDA1.4.4 under 386bsd ( 0.1 ) today. It seems
>like everything should work ( after some smaller changes ), but I get a
>mysterious error which I don't understand. I compiled gdbm under 386bsd
>( the test-programs showed no problems with this ) and compiled sendmail
>with -DGDBM ( and IDA too, of course ). 

Sounds like gdbm may be doing some added gratuitous locking for you that
interferes with sendmail.  Try using the sdbm package instead.  A recent
copy is on uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/sdbm.tar.Z .  Should you decide to
dig deeper and locate the problem with gdbm, I'd appreciate getting
diffs of the changes.

/pbp
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