[Pkg-exim4-users] question about update-exim4.conf manpage

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-05-20 Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> The man page for update-exim4.conf says, in part

>   If update-exim4.conf is called without the option -o, it
>   checks the validity of the freshly generated configuration file and
>   exits with  an error.   In   that   case,   the   new   file   is
>   not  installed  to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

> Is that the intended meaning?  My guess is the intended meaning is

> If update-exim4.conf detects that the freshly generated configuration
> file is invalid it exits with an error.  Unless the -o option was
> given, the old output file is retained.

Hej,

Afaict the documentation is correct, update-exim4.conf does not check
the validity if -o is given and does not exit with an error if -o is
given and the file is invalid:

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argenau:/etc/exim4/conf.d/main# echo blah > invalid
argenau:/etc/exim4/conf.d/main# update-exim4.conf
2006-05-21 10:54:00 Exim configuration error in line 201 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
  main option "blah" unknown
Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to 
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
argenau:/etc/exim4/conf.d/main# update-exim4.conf -o /tmp/xxxxx
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           cu andreas
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