On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:
> I took a look at Exim's FAQ (Q0022), went to the Exim specification (p.
> 248 f., 50.7 Database maintenance), went to /var/spool/exim/db and moved
> the content of this directory to /tmp. Now this log line
> > 2000-01-31 21:19:25 12FNID-0000FD-00 Failed to open wait-remote_smtp
> > database: Invalid argument
> has gone...
That is what I would have expected. (You can always throw away the db
files.) But I didn't suggest it because I thought you might be testing a
new Exim on a running system with an old version still active.
> Maybe the old (2.12) database format wasn't compatible to the new
> format...
Exim hasn't changed. But if the version of -ldb on your system has
changed in the meantime, that might explain it.
Otherwise, I think we are stuck for an explanation.
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