Many of "failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry"

Hello,

I'm new in the forum but i have using DA for at least 4 years.
In one of my servers I see many of "failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Connection timed out" and "failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Connection refused" lines and I not sure what is the meaning of this "error", you can see a little extract of my exim mainlog:

2009-09-07 09:10:35 1MPL7i-0001j0-QO == [email protected] R=lookuphost defer (-1): host lookup did not complete
2009-09-07 09:10:35 1MPL7i-0001j0-QO failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Connection timed out
2009-09-07 09:10:38 1MMJD0-0008IY-Ms hoitmail.com [208.73.210.27] Connection refused
2009-09-07 09:10:38 1MMJD0-0008IY-Ms failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Connection refused
2009-09-07 09:10:38 1MMJD0-0008IY-Ms == [email protected] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused
2009-09-07 09:10:38 1MMJD0-0008IY-Ms failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Success
2009-09-07 09:11:27 1MGfze-0006H5-5C netizen.com [82.98.86.173] Connection timed out
2009-09-07 09:11:27 1MGfze-0006H5-5C failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Connection timed out
2009-09-07 09:11:27 1MGfze-0006H5-5C == [email protected] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out
2009-09-07 09:11:27 1MGfze-0006H5-5C failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Success
2009-09-07 09:11:28 1MWXEF-0000KE-4S Remote host antispam21.skyonline.net [200.49.96.89] closed connection in response to RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
2009-09-07 09:11:28 1MWXEF-0000KE-4S failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp: Success

In the log I have many of "failed to open DB file" and this is that I cant understand why, thanks in advance!

Fernando

Check to see if file exists. Check to see if you've got space left on the partition.

Jeff

Thanks for your response Jeff,

The disk space its ok, and the files exists but with .lockfile in the end of the name:

[root@server db]# pwd
/var/spool/exim/db
[root@server db]# ls -la
total 24
drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4096 2009-09-07 08:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 mail mail 4096 2009-05-26 14:50 ..
-rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 2009-05-26 14:50 retry.lockfile
-rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 2009-05-26 14:50 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
[root@server db]#

I compare it with other server and name is with .lockfile too, Thanks!

Fernando

Those are locks. Remove the files ending in lockfile.

Jeff

I remove the files but when I reboot exim it appear again and I conties seeing the same error in the log, Thanks Jeff

Fernando

I don't know why exim is locking those files. Perhaps you can ask on the exim-users mailing list.

Jeff