Re: [Exim] Re: exim and DB lookups ?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Ward
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: exim and DB lookups ?
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, John Ward wrote:

> LOG: 0 PANIC DIE
> failed to open /etc/mail/popauth.db as a db (v2) file: Invalid argument
> search_tidyup called
>
> I must also add that if i do a db_dump (from berkeley utils) that it gives a
> similar error, and only when i use db_dump185, that it works.. how odd.


It's a screw-up between different versions of DB databases. Sounds like
you have a 1.95 database and a v2 library. Just remove all the files in
/var/spool/exim/db/*. Exim should then rebuild them over time, in the
new format.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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