Re: [Exim] problems compiling exim 4.12 on freebsd 4,7

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Philipp Gaschuetz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> has anyone also had problems compiling 4-12 on freebsd?
> it just didn't want to work out for me, and exim kept dying with
>
> "failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Inappropriate file type or
> format"
>
> tried to use db4, db3, no "extra db libs" installed, nothing would work.
> ...until I downloaded 4-10. copied the Makefile from 4-12 to 4-10/local.
> ...works like a charm.
>
> is this just me, or has anyone else expirienced this as well?

Have you tried to delete the files in /var/spool/exim/db?

ciao