Anders, I rebuilt sendmail for debugging, with -DNEWDB removed because it did not find the header db.h, and -DNDBM is there anyway - I think we probably don't need both. The problem went away. These are my "db" libraries.
Bruce -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86534 Nov 18 09:16 libdb.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Dec 1 19:06 libdb.so -> libdb.so.1.85.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Dec 1 21:25 libdb.so.1 -> libdb.so.1.85.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65536 Sep 12 19:17 libdb.so.1.85.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65177 Nov 18 09:16 libdb.so.1.85.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 1 19:19 libdbm.a -> libgdbm.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 1 19:19 libdbm.so -> libgdbm.so.1.7.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46726 Nov 18 10:40 libgdbm.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 1 19:19 libgdbm.so -> libgdbm.so.1.7.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 1 19:19 libgdbm.so.1.7 -> libgdbm.so.1.7.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24372 Nov 18 10:40 libgdbm.so.1.7.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 1 19:19 libndbm.a -> libgdbm.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 1 19:19 libndbm.so -> libgdbm.so.1.7.3 -- Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pixar Animation Studios Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. They just define darkness as an industry standard.