On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, John Horne wrote:
> 2000-10-30 10:38:23 13qCKc-0003iA-00 Failed to open wait-remote_smtp
> database: File exists
> As can be seen the message does get delivered. However the 'failed to
> open...file exists' message seems a bit confusing - the database couldn't be
> opened (for some reason) but what 'file exists'? Is this anything to worry
> about?
"File exists" is the message given by the strerror() function for
whatever the error code was when attempting to open the hints file. What
DBM library are you using?
> Note that I have not seen this message on a Solaris 7 system running Exim
> 3.167 though (which handles most of my inbound mail).
You are almost certainly using a different DBM library on Solaris,
unless you have deliberately taken steps otherwise.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
