Re: [Exim] gdbm and exim update: Can't access databases

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Author: Petr Cech
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] gdbm and exim update: Can't access databases
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:44:43AM +0000 , Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On one of my mailservers, I did an update from exim 3.12 to exim 3.14
> and updated the underlying Debian/GNU Linux system (probably including
> the gdbm library). My exim 3.14 binary is dynamically linked to
> libgdbm.so.1 which is symlinked to libgdbm.so.1.7.3.


isn't this the problem. The distribution binary is linked to
        libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4006c000)
so the format is not the same.


> Since that update, I keep getting log entries: "Failed to open
> wait-remote_smtp database. Invalid argument" and "Failed to open retry
> database". As far as I can see, the files are right there and are
> accessible to the exim user.
>
> Did the database format change? How do I rebuild the databases?


remove the database files and be happy (IMHO)

                Petr Cech
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