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

[Ross Boylan]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:14 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> (Only) if update-exim4.conf is called without the option -o, it
> checks the validity of the freshly generated configuration file. If
> the new file is invalid it is not installed to
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated and update-exim4.conf exits with
> an error. 
>      cu and- no native speaker -reas
That's pretty good.  How about

update-exim4.conf checks the validity of the freshly generated
configuration file if and only if invoked without the -o option.  If the
new file is invalid, update-exim4.conf exits with an error and leaves
the old /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated untouched.

It might be nice to check the validity of the output file in all cases
(which was the behavior I assumed), but that's a somewhat separate
issue.

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