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

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:56AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 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.

So you want something that could be documented with:

update-exim4.conf checks the validity of the freshly generated
configuration file. If the new file is invalid, update-exim4.conf
leaves the old /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated untouched, but will
overwrite an output file specified with -o.

Right?

Genereally, the update-exim4.conf man page should be flagged for a
major re-work.

Greetings
Marc

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