Re: Upgrading from Exim 3 to 4

[David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:54, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2004-04-30, David Clymer penned:
> >
> > Not only at install time. At runtime too. If you look at
> > /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, you'll see an that there is a 
> >
> > dc_use_split_config='true'
> >
> > This option specifies whether you want update-exim4.conf to build the
> > running config from the conf.d config (many files) or to copy it from
> > a monolithic /etc/exim4/exim4.conf file.
> >
> 
> Copy it to where?
> 

If you take a look at the /etc/init.d/exim4 script, you will see that it
is running update-exim4.conf whenever you start, restart, or reload
exim4. update-exim4.conf is a script which collects the various parts of
the config file from /etc/exim4/conf.d and builds them into a single
"running config" file which it places in
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated. Now that a monolithic config file
is again an option, i believe that it merely copys /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
to the running config.

-davidc