On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Mike Clarke via Exim-users wrote:
> I've just upgraded from 4.95 to 4.96 and have started to have problems with exim_tidydb
>
> curlew:/tmp# exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_auth_smtp
> Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_auth_smtp
> ** Failed to open DBM file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_auth_smtp for writing:
> No such file or directorycurlew:/tmp# exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp
> Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp
> ** Failed to open DBM file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp for writing:
> No such file or directory
> But both these files exist
>
> curlew:/tmp# ls -l /var/spool/exim/db
> total 5
> -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 14 Oct 2022 retry.lockfile
> -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 131072 4 Sep 11:21 wait-remote_auth_smtp
> -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 22 Aug 2020 wait-remote_auth_smtp.lockfile
> -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 131072 4 Sep 08:41 wait-remote_smtp
> -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 19 Jun 2021 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
>
> curlew:/tmp# exim --version
> Exim version 4.96 #1 (FreeBSD 13.2) built 29-Aug-2023 15:38:40
> Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2018
> (c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2022
> Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (compatibility mode)
> Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 use_setclassresources PAM Perl Expand_dlfunc OpenSSL
> TLS_resume Content_Scan
> ning DKIM DNSSEC Event I18N OCSP PIPECONNECT PRDR Queue_Ramp SPF
> TCP_Fast_Open
> Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb
> dsearch passwd
> Authenticators: cram_md5 dovecot plaintext spa
> Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
> Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
> Malware: f-protd f-prot6d drweb fsecure sophie clamd avast sock cmdline
> Fixed never_users: 0
> Configure owner: 0:0
> Size of off_t: 8
> Configuration file is /usr/local/etc/exim/configure
Configure owner is 0:0 - is /var/spool/exim/db mounted rootsquash ?
(It should not be.)
Does /usr/local/etc/exim/configure set exim_user to mailnull ?
Check permissions on parents of /var/spool/exim/db too.
... but why any of these would have changed between 4.95 and 4.96,
I cannot guess.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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