Re: [exim] exim-4.93: failed to open DB file

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Author: Frank Elsner
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To: exim-users
CC: Jeremy Harris
Subject: Re: [exim] exim-4.93: failed to open DB file
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:21:53 +0000 Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> On 09/12/2019 08:06, Frank Elsner via Exim-users wrote:
> > I've just replaced exim-4.93-RC7 by exim-4.93 and see in logfile:
> >
> > failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-smtp: Success
>
> That's... amusing. The internal DB-file open operation has
> not returned a handle to use, yet errno is zero.
>
> > What's going on?
>
> My question, too.
>
> Who built the binary, and what variant of DB file handling is
> being used? Could there have been a DB library update, or
> corrupt files lying around?


My version was compiled from source.
Makefile contains 
                  INCLUDE=-I/usr/include/libdb4
Changed this to
                  INCLUDE=-I/usr/include/libdb


and the (error?) message disappered


--Frank