Re: [Exim] Exim 4.14 failed to open DB file

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Szerző: Philip Hazel
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Címzett: Oliver Egginger
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.14 failed to open DB file
On 2 May 2003, Oliver Egginger wrote:

> failed to open DB file /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp: Permission
> denied (euid=8 egid=12)


What DBM library are you using?

> transport_check_waiting entered
> sequence=1 local_max=500 global_max=-1
> locking /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
> locked /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
> LOG: MAIN
> failed to open DB file /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp: Permission
> denied (euid=8 egid=12)
> SMTP>> QUIT


Strange, because it presumably created that file at some stage.

> Could it be, that Exim gets confused by the existens
> of the file
> /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile    ???


I hope not.

> This file exits since the first delivery.
> And it don't go away.


That is correct. Its existence is not the lock. It is used as a file to
open and take a lock on.

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