Re: [Exim] failed to open DB file

Martin Kaiser wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> yet another one of these problems. Browsing the previous mails on this
> list didn't help, so I have to bother you once again.
>
> I'm using exim 4.12 on FreeBSD 4.1, compiling Exim from the sources
> (using the port is not an option on this machine).
>
> In the log file, I see the following message:
>
> 2003-01-14 10:41:01 18YLaF-000Fxd-00 failed to open DB file
> /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Inappropriate file type or format
>
> Exim can't keep track of the retry times, undeliverable mails will never
> be expunged from the queue.
>
> I tried both the DBM that comes with FreeBSD and the latest Berkeley
> DB4. However, I still get the same message.
>
> /var/spool/exim/db/retry is owner by exim user, group and is 0 bytes of
> size
>
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remoteSmtp seems to be a valid hash file which
> exim created and used
>
> Any ideas how to track down this problem?

Have you tried to delete the files?

IIRC this solved the problem for someone else two weeks ago.

ciao