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
update-exim4.conf.template will exit immidiately. This option was introduced because
update-exim4.conf.template overwrites configuration files.
DESCRIPTION
The script
update-exim4.conf.template regenerates the main configuration file template
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template from the configuration 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 overriden with -o or
--output).
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.Debian.gz
