Re: [Exim] Exim crashing!! Please HELP!

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Steve Haslam
CC: Jose Carlos Carvalho, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim crashing!! Please HELP!
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Steve Haslam wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 06:15:36PM +0000, Jose Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> > locked /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
> > failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid
> > argument-------------->IS THAT? if so how can i resolve the problem?
> > LOG: 0 MAIN
> > Failed to open retry database
>
> Yep, looks like a DB problem. Try just doing "rm /var/spool/exim/db/*"
> (don't worry about their contents- they're just hints and exim will
> happily rebuild them).


If that doesn't work, it may be that your Exim has been built
incorrectly. Read the file doc/dbm.discuss.txt about various DB
libraries. If you compile with, for example, the wrong header file for
the DB library you are using, you can get effects like this.

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