Re: [exim] Failed to get write lock

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Author: Graeme Fowler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Failed to get write lock
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:46 +0000, Mr David Robertson wrote:
> Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile


If you Google for that you'll find several suggestions, most of which
indicate that something has either corrupted the DB file or the system's
DB library has been changed, or has a bug.

If you stop exim and remove all the files (yes, all of them)
from /var/spool/exim/db, restart exim again - what happens?

Graeme