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diff --git a/debian/manpages/update-exim4defaults.8 b/debian/manpages/update-exim4defaults.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d30ad2 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/manpages/update-exim4defaults.8 @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +.\" 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 "January 17, 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) +.SH NAME +update-exim4defaults \- Manage exim4 daemon default file. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B update-exim4defaults +.I [ --qflags flags ] +.I [ --queuerunner combined|separate|no ] +.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 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 "-q". See +.B exim(8) +for more information. +.TP +.I --queuerunner combined|separate|no +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 shouldn't we run the queue at all, for example if you'd rather do this +with +.B cron? +.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 begining 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 successfull 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 unsuccesful 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 SEE ALSO +.BR exim (8) + +.SH AUTHOR +Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> |