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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:10:35PM +0200, Rob Borland wrote:
> Agreed.  On the same issue, are failed validity checks logged?

No.

> If I gravely mutilate the source files update-exim4.conf takes a long
> time to complete and generates a blank (comments only)
> config.autogenerated file, but I can't see any error logged in
> /var/log/messages or /var/log/exim4.

An empty file is not valid, and thus the exim daemon won't be reloaded
in that case.

otoh, there are errors that are not caught by the exim -bV check that
we do.

Greetings
Marc

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