uschar keybuffer[256];
uschar temp_dbmname[512];
uschar real_dbmname[512];
+uschar dirname[512];
uschar *buffer = malloc(max_outsize);
uschar *line = malloc(max_insize);
Ustrcpy(temp_dbmname, argv[arg+1]);
Ustrcat(temp_dbmname, ".dbmbuild_temp");
+Ustrcpy(dirname, temp_dbmname);
+if ((bptr = Ustrrchr(dirname, '/')))
+ *bptr = '\0';
+
/* It is apparently necessary to open with O_RDWR for this to work
with gdbm-1.7.3, though no reading is actually going to be done. */
-EXIM_DBOPEN(temp_dbmname, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644, &d);
+EXIM_DBOPEN(temp_dbmname, dirname, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644, &d);
if (d == NULL)
{