From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 19:17:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9CC16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jeremino.homeunix.net (jeremino.xs4all.nl [80.126.224.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F8E43D3F for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:17:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kees@jeremino.homeunix.net) Received: from jeremina.homeunix.net ([10.0.0.5]) by jeremino.homeunix.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CZZz3-0003tR-N3; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:17:49 +0100 From: Kees Plonsz Organization: not organized To: Joe Altman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:17:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041201172423.GA2783@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20041201172423.GA2783@panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412012017.48567.kees@jeremino.homeunix.net> Subject: Re: Exim and FBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:17:51 -0000 You guessed right, of course I am running exim without those errors: Tidying Exim hints databases: Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/retry Tidying complete Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp Tidying complete #exim d Exim version 4.42 uid=1001 gid=1001 pid=4084 D=fbb95cfd Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) Support for: iconv() IPv6 OpenSSL Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective uid=0 gid=1001 pid=4084 auxiliary group list: 1001 configuration file is /usr/local/etc/exim/configure log selectors = 00000ffc 00014400 exim: debugging permission denied #ls -la /var/spool/exim/ total 6 drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Nov 17 20:23 db drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Dec 1 15:30 input drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Dec 1 15:30 msglog What else is there to know ? On Wednesday 01 December 2004 18:24, Joe Altman wrote: > I know it's an FAQ, and I know that strictly, it's likely to be a > DB/Exim issue, but I've tried the proposed solution[1] to no avail. > > So: > > I have a toy; it runs FBSD 5.3 and I would like to use Exim for local > and remote delivery. > > In my system mail, I am seeing this error: > > Tidying Exim hints databases: > > Tidying Exim hints database /var/spool/exim/db/retry > ** Failed to open DBM file /var/spool/exim/db/retry for writing: > No such file or directory (or Berkeley DB error while opening) > > I have this MTA running on a 4.x personal machine, and all is > well. However, it only does localhost delivery. I'd like to use the > 5.3 box for internet mail for my domain. > > Running the MTA with the debug flag: > > exim -d > Exim version 4.43 (FreeBSD 5.3) uid=0 gid=0 pid=95010 D=fbb95cfd > Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) > > So it sees _something_ about the db. This output is what I see on the > 4.x box WRT the db version. > > The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is that > during the original installation, I installed Exim from a package on > CD, rather than building from source. But: "...that shouldn't > matter...", right? > > My query: does anyone have exim on FBSD 5.3 running successfully, that > is, without the error I see? My guess is that the answer from someone > will be: "...of course." but I feel a need to ask. > > Thanks in advance for any clues. > > [1] Empty the /var/spool/exim/db/ dir; and let exim recreate the > relevant files.