Bug#446367: closed by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> (Re: Bug#446367: exim4 reads /etc/exim4/exim4.conf instead of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-10-12 17:18:03 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is not a bug, it is a documented feature.
> 
> | On the other hand if you don’t want to manage exim4.conf with debconf
> | install your own handcrafted  version  as  /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.
> | Exim will use this file if it exists and ignore the autogenerated one.

OK, I didn't see that. It would be more visible if the file was listed
in the FILES section (since it is taken into account).

Moreover, if one types 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config', meaning that
one uses debconf, shouldn't this file be renamed or shouldn't one get
a warning?

> None of the Debian exim4 packages that were actually uploaded to the
> main ftp archive have ever generated a /etc/exim4/exim4.conf file, so
> if you got one, you either have generated it manually, or had
> something else installed that generated it.

I didn't generate it manually. It seems to have been generated by
a modified exim4 package that was on the installation CD (not an
official one).

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