On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> andrew@??? said:
> } I am using Linux (slackware 3.2), the strange thing is that if the
> } retry database was held by another process, surely the old version
> } which I have now put back just incase till I know whats going on,
> } would do the same thing, seeing it uses the same file as the new
> } installation does for its retry database? (same directory same file in
> } config file), is this perhaps a bug in 1.70?
>
> Have you changed any of your libraries or your kernel since compiling the
> previous exim?
>
> Are you using the same Local/Makefile for both this and the old version of
> exim?
> In particular are you sure you are using the same DB library?
>
> [some recent kernel changes have broken locking if you use a 2.1.x series
> kernel].
>
Nothing has changed since the old version, not the kernel, not the
libraries, nothing, its exactly the same system, thats what makes no sense
to me. I run kernel 2.0.29, as I found 2.0.30 to be slightly buggy, but
to my knowledge this has no serious bugs of this kind.
Andrew Alston
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