Dear Togan, I did read the very message (the whole thread). There was just talks about different db formats and finally someone suggested to use some Perl-DB_File library (???) to create the _right_ db format. Still there's no guess what format is right here. In fact my intent was to run this setup on a SuSE 8.0 box (which is installed from the original CD set). I have the 8.1 (Budweiser) at hand for testing purposes, but think it is the same. Should we ask someone at SuSE? Boris. -- -- -- -- -- Boris Kimel N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry 47 Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia Phone1: +7 095 135-89-41 Phone2: +7 095 938-35-10 Phone3: (inside IOC) 9-80 auto secretary, please use! Fax: +7 095 135-53-28 Email: kimel@1303.ru -- -- -- -- --