On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > "failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Inappropriate file type or
> > format"
The most common cause of this is a change of DB library. The files were
written with the old library, and the new library doesn't like them.
This can happen sneakily if you recompile Exim after your OS has been
updated and (unnoticed by you) the OS upgrade has changed versions of
Berkeley DB. (It is annoying that they keep changing DB formats, and
even the API, with different BDB releases.)
> Have you tried to delete the files in /var/spool/exim/db?
That's the best thing to do. Exim will then rebuild them over time,
using the current DB library.
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