Testsuite: move manyhome.test,ex handling from exim to fakens

[exim.git] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index d971bc7441bca055069f2890b4b48cf9a523482b..4f43b0b1a582e1d57f7975d74c142c8b41d8dca0 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
     and "xyz" and single letters that are used in the tests. The test suite
     expects the login to have a gecos name; I think it will now run if the
     gecos field is empty but there may be anomalies.
+    The login must not contain a dash or an equal sign. (Otherwise some tests
+    about local_from_{suffix,prefix} will fail.)
 
 (4) The directory into which you unpack the test suite must be accessible by
     the Exim user, so that code running as exim can access the files therein.
@@ -885,6 +887,11 @@ example:
 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>]
 
@@ -1127,6 +1134,16 @@ directory by applying the standard substitutions. The test suite also builds
 dynamic zone files for the name of the current host and its IP address(es). The
 idea is that there should not be any need to rely on an external DNS.
 
+The fakens program handles some names programmatically rather than using the
+fake zone files.  These are:
+
+  manyhome.test.ex  This name is used for testing hosts with ridiculously large
+                    numbers of IP addresses; 2048 IP addresses are generated
+                    and returned. Doing it this way saves having to make the
+                    interface to fakens handle more records that can fit in the
+                    data block. The addresses that are generated are in the
+                    10.250.0.0/16 network.
+
 The domain names that are handled directly by Exim, without being passed to
 fakens, are:
 
@@ -1147,13 +1164,6 @@ directly; for all the others it uses DNS lookups, which are then handled as
 just described. Thus, the use of /etc/hosts is completely bypassed. The names
 that are specially handled are:
 
-  manyhome.test.ex  This name is used for testing hosts with ridiculously large
-                    numbers of IP addresses; 2048 IP addresses are generated
-                    and returned. Doing it this way saves having to make the
-                    interface to fakens handle more records that can fit in the
-                    data block. The addresses that are generated are in the
-                    10.250.0.0/16 network.
-
   localhost         Always returns 127.0.0.1 or ::1, for IPv4 and IPv6 lookups,
                     respectively.