On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts > --report > /etc/cron.daily > > /etc/cron.daily/exim: > Exim retry database in spool /var/spool/exim > Failed to open database file retry: Invalid argument > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1 > > I get this cron message ever since I upgraded exim last week > (unstable). Do I have to be worried? Mail gets delivered correctly, I > think.
You may need a glibc/libdb fix. This broke last week. Exim was among the broken apps. > BTW, I don't believe I have anacron installed on my system, and I don't > really need it either, since it's up almost always. Debian's crontab entries are set to look for anacron, if it doesn't exist, run-parts, which uses cron, is used. This allows a generic script to be used on both cron and anacron systems. Last I used anacron, it would spawn zombies. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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