On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:32:49PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-06-24 Ewan Mellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: exim4-config > > Version: 4.50-8 > > Severity: normal > > > I created a file named > > > /etc/exim4/conf.d/rewrite/20_exim4-config_rewrite-example.com > > > expecting the configuration to be picked up by update-exim4.conf. However, > > this file was silently ignored. update-exim4.conf performs sanitisation > > inside run-parts: > [...] > > This ignores any files not matching [[:alnum:]_-]+. > > > I presume the check is there for a good reason, but it is certainly too > > strict. Having full stops in filenames is not unusual! > > Hello, > this behavior intentionally mirrors the behavior of run-parts(1) and > afaict is not going to change. run-parts(1) is used widely in Debian > and the paradigma that "mv foo foo.something" disables reading the > file is quite common.
In that case, this ought to be documented. The best place for this, in the absence of more formal documentation, would be /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README-Debian.gz, in the "What are these gazillion number of files in /etc/exim4/conf.d?" section. This section explains the split configuration, and yet gives no mention of this restriction. Can I suggest, in place of "Each section of exim's configuration has its own subdirectory and the files in there are supposed to be read in alphanumeric order. router/00_exim4-config_header is followed by router/100_exim4-config_domain_literal, ..." we have instead "Each section of exim's configuration has its own subdirectory and the files in there are read as if by run-parts(8). This means that they are handled in alphanumeric order: router/00_exim4-config_header is followed by router/100_exim4-config_domain_literal. It also means that file names may only contain letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens -- files named any other way will be ignored. In particular, files with names containing full stops, such as 0_exim4-config_header.old, will be ignored." Cheers, Ewan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
