Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2007-08-24 at 14:21 -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a conditional file include so that I can roll out the
>> same exim configs to several hosts. I can't seem to get this to work:
>>
>> .include /etc/exim/host/${primary_hostname}.conf
>>
>> ---
>> Starting exim: 2007-08-24 14:10:54 Exim configuration
>> error in line 5 of /etc/exim/exim.conf: failed to open
>> included configuration file
>> /etc/exim/host/${primary_hostname}.conf
>> ---
>>
>> Can this be done? Does string replacement happen before include? If
>> not, is there some type of if/then/else or switch syntax that could be
>> cooked up to do different includes based on the value in $primary_hostname?
>
> This is all fully yet concisely documented in section 6.3 of The Exim
> Specification, "6.3 File inclusions in the configuration file", which
> states how early in the parsing process the inclusions are done, what
> parsing steps happen _before_ the include processing, etc.
>
> The Exim Specification is available online (via www.exim.org and its
> mirrors) and should also have been included with your distribution as a
> plaintext file named "spec.txt".
>
> Sections 6.3 through 6.9 are all likely to be of interest to you.
Thanks for your RTFM suggestion. Did that. Was hoping someone might
have an architecture recommendation on how I CAN do what I'm trying to
do ...
Notice also my question about asking for alternatives based on
$primary_hostname. I have a follow up message in this thread somewhere
where I also present option for using .ifdef but need help figuring out
how to conditionally define macros.
-- Dante
