On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 mwalkup@??? wrote:
> This, may seem like a strange question, but is there any way to use an
> environment variable in a .include?
>
> ie: .include \\\"/etc/exim/$HOSTNAME.conf\\\" ?
Using environment variables in any way in Exim is a security risk. So it
is not possible.
What's with all those backslashes? You don't need them.
> Im using CVS, and this would allow me to save all the configs to the
> CVS (as different files), and just have my exim.conf include the
> hostname configuration it needs.
>
> My example fails btw, and also:
>
> .include \\\"/etc/exim/${primary_hostname}.conf\\\"
>
> fails. I was thinking that because primary_hostname wasnt set it, it
> would use the uname.
The argument of .include is not string-expanded.
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