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diff --git a/debian/manpages/update-exim4defaults.8 b/debian/manpages/update-exim4defaults.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da74a65 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/manpages/update-exim4defaults.8 @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps +.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection +.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) +.TH UPDATE-EXIM4DEFAULTS 8 "March 26, 2003" EXIM4 +.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. +.\" +.\" Some roff macros, for reference: +.\" .nh disable hyphenation +.\" .hy enable hyphenation +.\" .ad l left justify +.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins +.\" .nf disable filling +.\" .fi enable filling +.\" .br insert line break +.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.\" \(oqthis text is enclosed in single quotes\(cq +.\" \(lqthis text is enclosed in double quotes\(rq +.SH NAME +update\-exim4defaults \- Manage exim4 daemon default file. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B update\-exim4defaults +.I [ \-\-qflags flags ] +.I [ \-\-queuerunner combined|queueonly|separate|ppp|no|nodaemon ] +.I [ \-\-queuetime time ] +.I [ \-\-commonoptions options ] +.I [ \-\-queuerunneroptions options ] +.I [ \-\-smtplisteneroptions options ] +.I [ \-\-remove\-common options ] +.I [ \-\-remove\-queue options ] +.I [ \-\-remove\-smtp options ] +.I [ \-\-force|\-f ] +.I [ \-\-help|\-h ] +.I [ \-\-init ] + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B update\-exim4defaults +allows one to set run parameters for the +.B Exim +daemon in +.I /etc/default/exim4. +Its main purpose is for interaction with packages enhancing +.B Exim +like virus-scanners that need to change the way the exim daemon is started. +.PP + +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.I \-\-help|\-h +Print short usage instructions and exit. +.TP +.I \-\-qflags flags +Set qflags, special flags given to exim directly after the \(lq\-q\(rq. See +.B exim(8) +for more information. +.TP +.I \-\-queuerunner combined|queueonly|separate|ppp|no|nodaemon +Should the init script start one daemon that listens on the smtp port for +incoming connections and runs the queue at regular intervals +.I (combined) +, or should it start two separate daemons, one listening on the smtp port, +the other running the queue +.I (separate) +, or should the queue only be run by /etc/ppp/ip\-up.d/exim4 +.I (ppp) +, or shouldn't we run the queue at all, for example if you'd rather do this +with +.B cron +? Or should we only start a queuerunner +.I (queueonly) +or no daemon at all +.I (nodaemon) +? +.TP +.I \-\-queuetime time +In which intervals should we run the queue? This passed as option +.I \-q<qflags>time +to Exim, e.g. \-q30m or \-qq1h. +.TP +.I \-\-commonoptions options +Options passed both to queue\-running and listening instances of Exim. +.TP +.I \-\-queuerunneroptions options +Options only passed to the instance of Exim running the queue. +.TP +.I \-\-smtplisteneroptions options +Options only passed to the instance of Exim listening on the SMTP port. +.TP +.I \-\-force|\-f +Without this option +.B update\-exim4defaults +exits with an error if at least one of the options \-\-queuetime, +\-\-commonoptions, \-\-queuerunneroptions or \-\-smtplisteneroptions is used and the +corresponding value in /etc/default/exim4 is +.I already +set to a nonempty value. +.TP +.I \-\-remove\-common option +Try to remove the given option from COMMONOPTIONS. +.TP +.I \-\-remove\-queue option +Try to remove the given option from QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS. +.TP +.I \-\-remove\-smtp option +Try to remove the given option from SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS. +.PP +The \-\-remove\-commands cannot be used at the same time as any of \-\-commonoptions, +\-\-queuerunneroptions or \-\-smtplisteneroptions. The \-\-remove\-commands will +additionally remove whitespace at the beginning and the end of the option and +exchange multiple spaces wi a single one. +.TP +.I \-\-init +create a default /etc/default/exim4 file and exit immediately. Unless +.I \-\-force +was also specified +.B update\-exim4defaults +exits (successfully) without doing anything if /etc/default/exim4 already +exists. All other options are ignored. + +.SH EXIT STATUS +.TP +.I 0 +change was successful or nothing needed to be done. +.TP +.I 1 +generic error: wrong options, unreadable configuration file, etc. +.TP +.I 2 +QUEUEINTERVAL was already set. +.TP +.I 4 +COMMONOPTIONS was already set. +.TP +.I 8 +QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS was already set. +.TP +.I 16 +SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS was already set. +.TP +.I 32 +QFLAGS was already set. +.TP +.I 64 +\-\-remove\-something failed, i.e. the value of the option was not changed. +.PP +Exit codes 2 to 32 will be summed up, if more than one unsuccessful option was +given. + +.SH FILES +.TP +.I /etc/default/exim4 +The configuration file. +.TP +.I /etc/init.d/exim4 +The Exim init\-script. +.TP +.I /etc/ppp/ip\-up.d/exim4 +The queuerunner in this file also uses COMMONOPTIONS and QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS and +does not run if QUEUERUNNER=no. + + +.SH 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. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR exim (8), +/usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/ + +.SH AUTHOR +Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> |