Victor Duchovni a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 07:51:13PM +0100, mouss wrote: > >> BTW, is there any reason why one can't do >> >> joepipe ... pipe >> flags=${joe_flags} >> user=${joe_user} >> args=${joe_command} ${joe_options} > > The reason is that theve arguments are not and should not be subject to > main.cf macro substitution. >
well, the question was why it is so. I mean what is the risk exactly? after all, one can generate master.cf with a script that takes definitions from main.cf (or from elsewhere). but I'm sure I'm missing something. thus the question.