On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, dman wrote:
> 2002-03-26 18:11:11 16piyF-0006OL-00 failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists
> 2002-03-26 18:20:33 16q1AX-00020S-00 failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists
Can you provide a prescription for that? It's an error that people
report from time to time, but which I've never been able to reproduce in
any way.
> I didn't do an exactly kosher install, though. I simply put the
> exim4 in place of the exim3 one (keeping a backup copy).
Has your DBM library changed since you compiled Exim 3? If Exim 4 was
compiled with a different DBM library version, that might explain it.
> Hmm, if I use the 4.01 exim_dumpdb, it says (abbreviated)
> "Failed: Success". If I use the 3.34 one I get an outdated list of
> entries from the retry db.
That *does* look as though the DBM library has changed.
> Should
> I remove the existing db files or is there a command I should use to
> fix them?
If it is a change of library, just remove them and let them be
recreated.
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