Re: bug report - nonexistant db file

From: Daniel Black <daniel.subs_at_internode.on.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:48:02 +1100

On Monday 23 November 2009 07:52:41 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > This is being caused by dkimf_db_open() being called with one of its
> > parameters being DEFINTERNAL, a string defined in opendkim.h to be
> > "csl:127.0.0.1". Somehow though the empty string is being passed to it.
>
> Nevermind, that was the optimizer playing games with me.
>
> Your config file requests a stats DB of "/tmp/stats". However, the
> statistics database has to be a Berkeley DB; if you only name a file, it
> assumes you want to use a flat file (which only has read-only support),
> which is an invalid request. So it's right to return an error, but it
> really should be a more descriptive one. I'll fix that.
>
> Try using either "/tmp/stats.db" or "db:/tmp/stats".
>
it was in sign only mode so the db statistics actually didn't matter. The
config was copied from elsewhere. The error was a bit unintuitive though.
Thanks for fixing.

What's the startup case - can you specify a statistics database and expect
opendkim to create it?
Received on Sun Nov 22 2009 - 21:49:12 PST