On 2005-04-23 Barry Kitson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.50-6
> When upgrading any recent version of the exim4 package, the exim4-config
> postinst script tries to update /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> configuration file automagically.
[...]
> All appears to work if the configuration variables (ie environment
> variables) in etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf do not contained escape
> sequences.
s/escape sequences/special charaters in se replacement patterns, i.e.
backslashes/
> If they do they will be replaced with their expansion. A
> result can be that the exim configuration is fatally corrupted.
> For example, a configuration in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> such as...
> dc_relay_domains='*.some.net.somewhere:\\N^[^.]*$'
[...]
> A patch fixing the problem is attached...
Hello,
Thank you.
gawk does not support character classes, so I had to replace
[[:space:]] with [ \t], but otherwise this seems to work fine.
The same problem exist in update-exim4.conf, you should not need to
specify '\\N' if you wanted '\N' to end up in the configuration file.
cu andreas
cu andreas
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