Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Matthias Waffenschmidt wrote:
>
>>I have exim 4.20 compiled with a static Berkeley DB library version
>>3.2.9 and exim is just running fine. For example the retry database
>>has the correct file format:
>>
>>bash-2.05# file /var/spool/exim/db/retry
>>/var/spool/exim/db/retry: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order)
>>
>>But when I try to access these files with the exim utilites
>>(e.g. exim_dumpdb) I get the following error message:
>>
>>bash-2.05# exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim retry
>>** Failed to open DBM file /var/spool/exim/db/retry for reading:
>> Inappropriate file type or format (or Berkeley DB error while opening)
>>
>>As exim_dbmbuild creates a Berkeley DB file of version 1.85 and
>>exim_dumpdb can read this file there is an inconsistency of the
>>Berkeley DB versions used by exim:
>
> That is strange, but it must be caused by some kind of problem when Exim
> was compiled. You are using FreeBSD, right? IIRC that is the OS where
> 1.85 is still the default.
The FreeBSD exim port builds with Berkeley DB 3.3 by default. The Berkeley DB 3.x
port was upgraded from 3.2.9 to 3.3 on the 22 of August 2002. Can you tell us the
output of:
ldd `which exim`
ldd `which exim_dumpdb`
uname -a
find /usr /lib -name 'libdb*' -ls
Regards
Oliver
