On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:49:42PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > | since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and > | "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. > | > | i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to > | fix it (or if it needs fixing): > | > | /etc/cron.daily/exim: > | failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid argument > | failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Invalid argument > | run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1 > | > | where do i figure out where the invalid argument is coming from? > > I'm not sure why you're getting Invalid Argument, but try removing all > of the db files and the corresponding lockfiles. They are just hints > that exim stores for more efficient handling of future deliveries and > aren't essential for correct operation. It's possible that you > changed the exim binary in late december, and that binary is linked > against a different libdb than the previous one was and as a result > exim can't read the db file. If that's the case, then removing them > will fix the problem. You could try running exim under ltrace and/or strace and see where/what is getting confused with the db files. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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