UPDATE-EXIM4.CONF.TEMPLATE(8System Manager's ManuUPDATE-EXIM4.CONF.TEMPLATE(8)
NAME
update-exim4.conf.template - Regenerate exim4 configuration file tem-
plate.
SYNOPSIS
update-exim4.conf.template [-h|--help] [-n|--nobackup] [-o|--output
file] [-r|--run]
OPTIONS
-h|--help
Show short help message and exit
-n|--nobackup
Overwrite existing file, instead of keeping it as
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.bak.random-number
-o|--output file
Write output to file instead of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
-r|--run
Actually do something. If this option is not specified up-
date-exim4.conf.template will exit immediately. This option was
introduced because update-exim4.conf.template overwrites config-
uration files.
DESCRIPTION
The script update-exim4.conf.template regenerates the main configura-
tion file template /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template from the configura-
tion snippets in the /etc/exim4/conf.d directory tree.
This process will overwrite all local changes in
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and might be useful if there are local
changes in the /etc/exim4/conf.d directory tree, for example by a new
mail related package dropping its own configuration snippets in there.
update-exim4.conf.template ignores all files in the conf.d directory
that have a filename which does not consist only of letters, numbers,
underscores and hyphens ([:alnum:]_-), similar to run-parts(8). For
easy interaction with packages extending Exim additionally
/etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar.rul is used instead of
/etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar if it exists!
ENVIRONMENT
If CONFDIR is set update-exim4.conf.template will search for the input
files below $CONFDIR/conf.d instead of /etc/exim4/conf.d/ and will
write the output to $CONFDIR/exim4.conf.template instead of to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template (unless overridden with -o or --output).
BUGS
This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff
than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
would be greatly appreciated.
SEE ALSO
exim4(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/ and for general notes and details
about interaction with debconf /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.De-
bian.gz
AUTHOR
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
EXIM4 Feb 27, 2005 UPDATE-EXIM4.CONF.TEMPLATE(8)