Exim and FBSD 5.3

[Kees Plonsz]

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.