> > Now the "log" file is working here, but the "once" file isn't. I was
> > kind of expecting it to work a bit like "vacation' where it makes the
> > file for you if it doesn't exist yet. Presumably I need to create an
> > empty database first? Or am I barking up completely the wrong tree here?
>
> It should make it. It did when I went on holiday :-) The relevant
> system call has O_RDWR|O_CREAT set.
Nick are you running Exim 0.54?
There was a bug in the native Berkeley DB code that caused Exim to dump
core when trying to create a new once file.
Philip fixed this for me in 0.55.
Dave
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