Re: [exim] problem with exim_dbmbuild

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sujit Choudhury
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] problem with exim_dbmbuild
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Sujit Choudhury wrote:

> I am running exim_dbmbuild and getting the following error:
> exim_dbmbuild /etc/aliases /tmp/aliases.db
> exim_dbmbuild: unable to create /tmp/aliases.db.dbmbuild_temp: Success


Very odd. What are the permissions on /tmp?

> The platform is SuSE 9.1


Anything special about the file system, such as access control lists?

> Also in the make file, I have:
> USE_DB=yes
> DBMLIB=-L/usr/lib -ldb-4.0
> INCLUDE=-I/usr/include
>
> I am at a loss - this is my first attempt to do anything on a SuSE box.


Is there more than one version of libdb installed? Could they be getting
confused?

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