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+.\" 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-EXIM4.CONF.TEMPLATE 8 "Feb 27, 2005" 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\-exim4.conf.template \- Regenerate exim4 configuration file template.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B update\-exim4.conf.template [\-h|\-\-help] [\-n|\-\-nobackup] [\-o|\-\-output file] [\-r|\-\-run]
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.I \-h|\-\-help
+Show short help message and exit
+.TP
+.I \-n|\-\-nobackup
+Overwrite existing file, instead of keeping it as
+/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.bak.random-number
+.TP
+.I \-o|\-\-output file
+Write output to file instead of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
+.TP
+.I \-r|\-\-run
+Actually do something. If this option is not specified
+.B update\-exim4.conf.template
+will exit immediately. This option was introduced because
+.B update\-exim4.conf.template
+overwrites configuration files.
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The script
+.B update\-exim4.conf.template
+regenerates the main configuration file template
+.I /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
+from the configuration snippets in the
+.I /etc/exim4/conf.d
+directory tree.
+.PP
+This process will overwrite all local changes in
+.I /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
+and might be useful if there are local changes in the
+.I /etc/exim4/conf.d
+directory tree, for example by a new mail related package dropping its
+own configuration snippets in there.
+
+.B 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
+.B 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!
+
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+If
+.B CONFDIR
+is set
+.B 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).
+
+
+.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 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
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+Marc Haber <mh+debian\-packages@zugschlus.de>