On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:16:28AM +0100 or thereabouts, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:11:44AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > What do these messages from the cron daemon mean? > > > > Failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists > > > > and > > > > Failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: File exists > > > > I get these messages every morning from the cron daemon. Both of these > > files do exist, as well as .lockfiles for each of them. What do I need > > to do to correct the problem and stop getting these messages? Should I > > delete the .lockfiles? Should I delete all four files? Should I do > > something else entirely? This does not SEEM to be causing problems on > > my system, but something is obviously not right. Any help will be > > appreciated. > > I get these too, on two distinct systems running unstable. I was > planning on reporting a bug on it but I've been sitting my finals. > Consider filing one yourself, if I haven't by the time you read this :-)
It already has been reported. Instructions to fix this problem can be found here; <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248622> -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saturday May 29 2004 11:41:02 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H.L. Mencken
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