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May 27, 2009, 1:52 AM

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[DBMail 0000784]: man page of dbmail-smtp wrong

The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=784
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Reported By: zmi
Assigned To:
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Project: DBMail
Issue ID: 784
Category: Documentation
Reproducibility: always
Severity: minor
Priority: normal
Status: new
target:
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Date Submitted: 27-May-09 10:52 CEST
Last Modified: 27-May-09 10:52 CEST
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Summary: man page of dbmail-smtp wrong
Description:
Currently it says:
-f configfile
Specify an alternate config file. The utilities are
currently hardcoded to use /etc/dbmail.conf for their configs

that is wrong. The path is /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf, I know it because I
had that file 0600 and then an alias that invoked dbmail-smtp logged an
error not finding /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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27-May-09 10:52 zmi New Issue
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Jul 28, 2009, 11:47 PM

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Re: [DBMail 0000784]: man page of dbmail-smtp wrong [In reply to]

On Mittwoch 29 Juli 2009 Mantis Bug Tracker wrote:
> The following issue has been CLOSED
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>= http://dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=784

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>- (0002867) netvulture (developer) - 29-Jul-09 05:51
> http://dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=784#c2867
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>- Patch pending commit to reflect that debian systems use
> /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf vs. /etc/dbmail.conf

I use
--sysconfdir=/etc/dbmail
in the configure script - is the documentation automatically recompiled
then? Not that I personally would care, but when a new admin reads the
man page, he could be confused.

mfg zmi
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Jul 29, 2009, 1:19 PM

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Re: [DBMail 0000784]: man page of dbmail-smtp wrong [In reply to]

Michael Monnerie wrote:
> --sysconfdir=/etc/dbmail
>
I do not know if the man page compilation can use that setting to insert
the correct value. The man page will read:

-f configfile::
Specify an alternate config file. The utilities are currently
hardcoded to use /etc/dbmail.conf for their configs, and will
halt if the config file cannot be found. Use the -f configfile
option to specify your system's preferred config file location.
Debian is patched to have /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf as the default.

I think from this description, that any competent sys admin should be
able to find the config in the regular location, even if its on a debian
box.

-Jon

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