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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:51:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

I have committed the following new wording:

       If the new configuration will be written to
       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated, update-exim4.conf will
       check the validity of the freshly generated configuration.  If
       the new file is detected as invalid, update-exim4.conf leaves
       the old /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated untouched and exits
       with an error.

       However, there are still possible invalidities that can only be
       detected at run time. This most notably applies to errors in
       expressions that are expanded at run time.

       If the new configuration will be written to some other file,
       this file's contents will always be overwritten regardless of
       the validity of the freshly generated configuration.


> > 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.

I disagree on that point. The current behavior is just fine in my
opinion.

Greetings
Marc

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