Re: What does this cron message mean?
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:21:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik (frederik@maui.kotnet.org) wrote:
> > > Subject: Cron <root@maui> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
> > > /etc/cron.daily
> > >
> > > /etc/cron.daily/exim:
> > > Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim
> > > Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument
> > > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1
> > >
> > > I get this cron message ever since I upgraded exim last week
> > > (unstable). Do I have to be worried? Mail gets delivered correctly, I
> > > think.
> >
> > You may need a glibc/libdb fix. This broke last week. Exim was among
> > the broken apps.
>
> How does one make that fix? I've kept everything dist-upgraded (in
> Woody) and I am still receiving the same message as the original poster.
>
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From: Mark Baker <mark@mnb.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug#73048: exim: /etc/cron.daily/exim does not work: Failed to
open database file retry: Invalid argument
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Oct 03, 2000 at 02:51:29PM +0300
To: Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>, 73048@bugs.debian.org
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:51:29PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> [14:41:27 /tmp]# exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry
> Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim
> Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument
When Ben did a non-maintainer upload of exim recently he switched to using
libdb2 instead of libdb 1.85, and the files aren't compatible. Unfortunately
he didn't notice the problem, and nor did I when I subsequently uploaded an
exim package.
I'll fix this and upload a fixed package.
In the meantime, if you delete the files in /var/spool/exim/db, it will
create new ones using libdb2 which will work, but you'll have to do it again
when you upgrade to a later version where I've gone back to 1.85.
(If it was only those hints databases I'd change to libdb2 permanently and
have the postinst or something delete the existing databases, but it's
possible for users to use db files for other things, which a) I wouldn't
know about unless I parsed the config file, and b) they might not want
deleting)
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