On Friday, 8 September 2023 11:36:14 BST Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> Looks fun. Try running it under strace? It presumably
> does an open() syscall which returns an error. Check the
> args to that open.
Here's the last few lines of running a trace with the command
exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp
=======================================================================
open("/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.db",O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC,00) = 4 (0x4)
fstat(4,{ mode=-rw-r----- ,inode=1180752,size=131072,blksize=131072 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(4,"\0\^F\^Ua\0\0\0\^B\0\0\^D\M-R\0"...,260) = 260 (0x104)
pread(4,"\0\0\M-z\^?\0\M^@\M^[\^?\M-%\^?"...,32768,0x8000) = 32768 (0x8000)
pread(4,"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,32768,0x10000) = 32768 (0x8000)
pwrite(4,"\0\^F\^Ua\0\0\0\^B\0\0\^D\M-R\0"...,260,0x0) = 260 (0x104)
fsync(4) = 0 (0x0)
close(4) = 0 (0x0)
close(3) = 0 (0x0)
write(1,"Tidying complete\n",17) = 17 (0x11)
exit(0x0)
process exit, rval = 0
=======================================================================
So it's looking for wait-remote_smtp.db instead of wait-remote_smtp.
As a temporary workaround I've added symbolic links:
curlew:/tmp# ls -l /var/spool/exim/db
total 6
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 14 Oct 2022 retry.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 131072 8 Sep 19:40 wait-remote_auth_smtp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 21 8 Sep 13:49 wait-remote_auth_smtp.db@ -> wait-
remote_auth_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 22 Aug 2020 wait-remote_auth_smtp.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 131072 8 Sep 19:41 wait-remote_smtp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 16 8 Sep 13:49 wait-remote_smtp.db@ -> wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 0 19 Jun 2021 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
With these symlinks exim_tidydb now works without errors. I was wondering if this is a
bug with 4.96 or if the new version now require the database files to have a .db suffix so I
fired up a new virtual system with exim 4.96 which created database files with the ,db
suffix. So for my current system should I just rename the database files, or even just
delete them and let exim create new ones?
--
Mike Clarke
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