On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> I think that leaving a window with no exim might be a *good* idea for
> some of us, when upgrading from v3 to v4.
>
> From what has been suggested for exim 4, I don't think I want to run
> the same config file, and I'm pretty sure that some of us will forget
> to change the config file name compiled into the binary.
You won't be able to run the same config file. There are syntactic
changes. If you are anything other than completely reckless, you'll at
the very least want to ./exim4 -bV before installing it, and that will
barf on an old config.
The conversion document will recommend in large friendly letters that
the first thing you should do when preparing to convert to Exim 4 is to
re-install Exim 3 using a different configuration file.
> Or do you have a fail-safe way of insuring that the binary can always
> select the appropriate config file when upgrading :-)
What is fail safe? If you install Exim 4 without changing the config, it
will just fail to work. This leaves you in pretty much the same
situation as a window without Exim, doesn't it?
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