On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Thomas Egrelius said: > it "hangs" on trying to open the auto-whitelist db, and after the default > 30 tries it gives up with the message "Cannot open > ~/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist: permission denied" or similar. I've tried > to set permissions of files and directories without luck.
One cause of this message is if you have multiple major versions of libdb installed simultaneously. They tend to `fight'; libdb2 ends up calling some libdb3 internal functions when opening or creating databases, and you end up getting a nonsensical error passed up to the upper layers. (In addition to EPERM, I got EEXIST, which was really stupid: you can't create this database file because it doesn't exist?!) The solution is to arrange for Perl to only use one major version of libdb at once (and note that Perl tries to dlopen() libdb, so it can be hard to do: I did it here by upgrading to libdb4 and rebuilding everything that used libdb against that version). (The Debian BTS contains comments that suggest that the libdb upstream actually *refused* to use hidden, private, or versioned symbols to ameliorate this problem. Thanks a million :( ) -- `Unless they've moved it since I last checked, travelling between England and America does not involve crossing the equator.' --- pir _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
