Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD

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Author: Christian Schmidt
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim and FreeBSD
Hello Jonathan,

Jonathan Vanasco, 22.07.2005 (d.m.y):

> >newaliases           /usr/local/sbin/exim
> >mailq           /usr/local/sbin/exim
> >hoststat        /usr/local/sbin/exim
> >purgestat       /usr/local/sbin/exim

>
> shouldn't those lines be more like:
>
>     newaliases        /usr/bin/true
>     mailq         /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
>     hoststat            /usr/bin/true
>     purgestat            /usr/bin/true


AFAIK exim does recognize how it was called, i.e. it evaluates $0 and
shows the correxponding behaviour. For example it runs "itself" with
the option "-bp" when it's being invoked with the "mailq" command.


Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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