I'd like to revisit github issue #283 [1] "feature: show program version"
In a nutshell I'm trying to create some OpenSMTPD version tests for the
Ansible config mgmt system, and grepping the logs for the version has the
following problems
1) Version number could be in uncompressed or gzipped logs, requiring two
tests and more complex shell command ugliness
2) Version number disappears from the logs after a week or so
3) Taking the above into account, there's really no reliable way to
determine if the version number is still in the logs, so the smtpd service
must be bounced to ensure the version number is written to
/var/log/maillog and findable
4) Version number then must be pulled out of the standard output which
looks something like this...
$ sudo grep 'info: OpenSMTPD'
/var/log/maillog
Jul 1 17:17:58 mx smtpd[13744]: info: OpenSMTPD 5.7.1 starting
...and awked or whatever.
All of this boils down to a huge pain in the a** just to obtain the
current OpenSMTPD version number in order to determine whether the
software needs to be updated or not.
In the name of all that is good and holy, please re-consider adding a
'show version' feature, preferably to smptctl.
[1] https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD/issues/283
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