* Adam Funk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040308 09:07]: > When I migrated to Debian a while back I wasn't too impressed with the > configuration method for the exim4 package: a lot of little files > in /etc/exim4/conf.d/ and a program to generate the real conf file. I > can see the advantages of this, but I had a perfectly good exim.conf > file to reuse that I had carefully developed over some time. > > So I built Exim from source and installed an equivs package. But now > I'm wondering -- does the update program just cat all the bits together > into exim.conf? Could I have just deleted everything > from /etc/exim4/conf.d/ and copied my own exim.conf file in there, so > that the updater would effectively copy that file to the real one?
That's pretty much what it does, along with some variable substitutions from /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf . FYI, more recent packages use debconf to prompt about whether to use lots of little files in conf.d or a monolithic config file. If you have a spare machine, you might want to try the install and see how you like it compared with your from-source install. I think the exim4 packages are pretty good. good times, Vineet
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