X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/bdf36f7cd98fba7717e078de8c6f6bd3e5927cae..6d5c916cc5720591335fea53242dd6b97ea56fe3:/test/README diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index d986a47cb..5d9bed72d 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ EXPORTABLE EXIM TEST SUITE This document last updated for: -Test Suite Version: 4.67 -Date: 20 February 2007 +Test Suite Version: 4.87 +Date: 30 January 2016 BACKGROUND @@ -73,12 +73,13 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met: Defaults:exim-build timestamp_timeout=480,!tty_tickets -(3) The login under which you run the tests must be in the exim group so that - it has access to logs, spool files, etc. The login should not be one of the - names "userx", "usery", "userz", or a few other simple ones such as "abcd" - 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. +(3) The login under which you run the tests must have the exim group as a + secondary so that it has access to logs, spool files, etc. However, it + should have a different primary group (eg. "users" vs. "eximgroup"). The + login should not be one of the names "userx", "usery", "userz", or a few + other simple ones such as "abcd" 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.) @@ -927,7 +928,9 @@ input, details of which are given below. A number of options are implemented: -d causes the server to output debugging information -t sets a timeout (default 5) for when the server is - awaiting an incoming connection + awaiting an incoming connection. If negative, the + absolute value is used and a timeout results in a + nonfailure exit code -noipv4 causes the server not to set up an IPv4 socket