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Re: Exim errors



On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:35:00AM +0100 or thereabouts, Craig Shelley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having exactly the same problem with exim.
> The postmaster account receives the following errors by email, daily.
> 
> failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists
> failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists
> 
> I have tried deleting the databases so that exim rebuilds them.
> The /etc/cron.daily/exim cron script runs without error if run from the
> command line.
> 
> The problem seemed to start after the last upgrade of the exim package
> to 3.35-1woody3.

I used reportbug to report this (it is an acknowledged bug). I've since received
an e-mail suggesting that the following URL, has a solution. I haven't applied it, but
here it is;

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248622>

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Steve
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  Thursday May 27 2004 11:11:01 AM EDT
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