Add log_file_path supprt to update-exim4.conf

[Peter Van Biesen]

Hi Andreas,

I thought the main goal of the update-exim4.conf.conf is to isolate all
configuration into that file, so one only needs to edit that and it would
be kept through upgrades ( and possible syntax changes in the config files
). Is this not the case ?

Anyway, shouldn't it be :
echo "log_file_path = :syslog" >> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros

We have other settings also we want to push, so if the conf.conf is not the
place to do it, we will start using the localmacros file.

Kindest regards,

Peter.


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:

> On 2013-12-16 Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen at vaph.be> wrote:
> > I needed to get exim to log to syslog and I noticed this could not be
> done
> > with update-exim4.conf . So I patched it and like to share. Is this the
> way
> > to supply this ?
>
> > I added dc_log_file_path to the update-exim4.conf.conf . If this variable
> > is non-empty, an additional line is added in the autogenerated config
> file,
> > overriding any log_file_path already defined ( apparently it is always
> > defined ).
>
> > What needs to be put in the string can be found in the exim spec :
> >
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-log_files.html
>
> > In my example, exim will log to the /var/log/exim4 logfiles and syslog .
>
> Any reason you don't simply use
>
> echo ':syslog' >> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros
>
> cu Andreas
>
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