On 2007-12-20 at 17:37 +0000, Terry Burton wrote: > Otherwise, is there a recommended way to obtain such values from a > shell script without having to hardcode the value or grep the Exim > config?
With well-defined data syntaxes and exiting after first match (anchored to the start of the line) grep is good. It's certainly going to be faster than launching the full MTA; further, a broken config file may cause the MTA to complain, so your error handling logic just got a lot harder. % grep -m1 '^TLSCERTIFICATESDIR\b' /etc/exim/exim.conf TLSCERTIFICATESDIR=/etc/ssl/services/exim That does fall down if you pull in extra config files or use redefinitions; presumably if you are then you can adjust your scripts accordingly. If you do want to "ask Exim", then you'll need to ask for the value of an option set using the macro and then strip off the filename component: % exim -bP tls_certificate tls_certificate = /etc/ssl/services/exim/spodhuis-smtpmx.crt.pem For anything except macros, Exim can use the arguments to -bP to output it. If you think macros would be useful, file a feature request bug. :) -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
