Re: [Exim] failed to open DB file

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Author: Steve Haslam
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [Exim] failed to open DB file
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Bart van Dommelen wrote:
> I upgraded a debian 2.2r2 Linux Mailserver from 3.12 to 3.22. Everything works
> fine, but in the mainlog I get
> "failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp". I used exim_dump
> with this result:


> When I start a debug session, this version of DBM is shown: Berkeley DB:
> Sleepycat Software: DB 2.4.14: (6/2/98)
>
> I hope someone has a suggestion, I suspect the DBM is out of date and needs to
> be upgraded. . In version 3.12 this message did not appear.


IIRC, the 3.12 exim package in debian used db 1.85, and berkeley db 2
won't read them. Just delete the .db files and exim will rebuild them
as necessary.

SRH
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