Like it or not, that is the ONLY way to tell what version of qmail you are
running.

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 9 February 1999 at 21:36:56 +0100
>  > - Adam H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  > 
>  > | Okay, I have qmail doing lots of things, and I have not much of a problem
>  > | getting it working with vdomains, etc etc.. but my dumb question is.
>  > | How do I tell what version I'm running?
>  > | ;)
>  > 
>  > Run  man qmail  and scroll to the bottom.
>  > 
>  > Or, with GNU grep:
>  > 
>  > ; grep -A1 version /var/qmail/man/man7/qmail.7 
>  > This documentation describes version
>  > 1.03
> 
> I'm not willing to assume, *especially* if debugging somebody else's
> installation, that the documentation I find is in sync with the
> binaries I'm running.  There really ought to be some sort of way to
> tell directly from the binaries.  Ident doesn't find anything, and
> strings doesn't turn up a string that looks like a version to me.
> -- 
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