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

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Author: Marc Haber
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Subject: Re: [Exim] gdbm and exim update: Can't access databases
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:12:17 +0200, Petr Cech
<cech@???> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:44:43AM +0000 , Marc Haber wrote:
>> 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.


Both exims (the one that was used with slink, and the one that was
used with potato) were self-compiled.

>> 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)


I'll try that tomorrow.

Greetings
Marc

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