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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-05-04 22:26:27 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-05-04 22:41:18 +0100
commit209ae7d1946737154660aa7b47bee07e09e8a51a (patch)
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Testsuite: fix scripts for daemon interlock
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Finally, "exim" can be preceded by "sudo", to run Exim as root. If more than
one of these prefixes is present, they must be in the above order.
+If the options include "-DSERVER" but not "-DNOTDAEMON", the script waits for
+Exim to start but then continues without waiting for it to terminate. Typically
+this will be for a daemon-mode "-bd" operation. The daemon should be later
+terminated using "killdaemon".
+
exim_exim [<options>] [<arguments>]