NAME¶
update-exim4.conf.template - Regenerate exim4 configuration file template.
SYNOPSIS¶
update-exim4.conf.template [-h|--help] [-n|--nobackup] [-o|--output file]
[-r|--run]
OPTIONS¶
- -h|--help
- Show short help message and exit
- -n|--nobackup
- Overwrite existing file, instead of keeping it as
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.bak.random-number
- -o|--output file
- Write output to file instead of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
- -r|--run
- Actually do something. If this option is not specified
update-exim4.conf.template will exit immediately. This option was
introduced because update-exim4.conf.template overwrites
configuration files.
DESCRIPTION¶
The script
update-exim4.conf.template regenerates the main configuration
file template
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template from the configuration
snippets in the
/etc/exim4/conf.d directory tree.
This process will overwrite all local changes in
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and might be useful if there are local
changes in the
/etc/exim4/conf.d directory tree, for example by a new
mail related package dropping its own configuration snippets in there.
update-exim4.conf.template ignores all files in the conf.d directory that
have a filename which does not consist only of letters, numbers, underscores
and hyphens ([:alnum:]_-), similar to
run-parts(8). For easy
interaction with packages extending Exim additionally
/etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar.rul is used instead of /etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar if
it exists!
ENVIRONMENT¶
If
CONFDIR is set
update-exim4.conf.template will search for the
input files below $CONFDIR/conf.d instead of /etc/exim4/conf.d/ and will write
the output to $CONFDIR/exim4.conf.template instead of to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template (unless overridden with -o or --output).
BUGS¶
This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us
and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly
appreciated.
SEE ALSO¶
exim4(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/ and for general notes and details
about interaction with debconf /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz
AUTHOR¶
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>