On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 10:41, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> Have been searching all over for this. I am trying to setup a local
> RBL for private use. But am having problem testing it with exim
> caching callout results. Is there a way to clear the callout cache
> without restarting exim?
By default anything in the exim/db directory (which includes the callout
caches) is a set of hints - ie they are not critical to system
operation. This means it is safe to just delete the files in there
(unless you start putting your own db files in there), or to use
exim_tidydb to prune down the content.
Depending on how busy your system is, and the quality of the db/dbm
implementation on your system, there may be advantages to periodically
deleting the hints files to get around problems of db fragmentation and
bloat which exim_tidydb cannot cope with. It can also be simpler to
delete them if exim or the db/dbm shared libraries are upgraded rather
than discover that there are unwanted/unexpected file format
compatibility problems.
Nigel.
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