# The build process concatenates on the front of this various settings from
# os-specific files and from the user's configuration file.
-# Copyright (c) 2004 University of Cambridge.
+# Copyright (c) 2004 - 2015 University of Cambridge.
# See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution.
# Except when they appear in comments, the following placeholders in this
# If log_file_path is "syslog" then logging is only to syslog, and the monitor
# is unable to display a log tail unless EXIMON_LOG_FILE_PATH is set to tell
-# it where the log data is. Otherwise, remove any occurrences of
-# "syslog:" or ":syslog" (spaces allowed in various places) and look at the
-# remainder of the entry. If it's null, the default is "mainlog" in the
-# "log" directory in the spool directory. Otherwise, set the name from the
-# given path.
+# it where the log data is. If log_file_path is unset (i.e. empty) the default
+# is "mainlog" in the "log" directory in the spool directory. Otherwise,
+# remove any occurrences of "syslog:" or ":syslog" (spaces allowed in various
+# places) and look at the remainder of the entry. If it's null, check whether
+# LOG_FILE_NAME was set a compile time and contains a path. Otherwise fall
+# back to the default path.
if [ "$EXIMON_LOG_FILE_PATH" != "" ] ; then
LOG_FILE_NAME="$EXIMON_LOG_FILE_PATH"
echo MAIL.INFO syslog messages into a separate file, you can point eximon at
echo that file with the EXIMON_LOG_FILE_PATH environment variable.
echo \*\*\*
+elif [ "$LOG_FILE_PATH" = "" ] ; then
+ LOG_FILE_NAME=$SPOOL_DIRECTORY/log/mainlog
else
LOG_FILE_NAME=`echo $LOG_FILE_PATH | \
sed -e 's/ *: *syslog *: */:/' \
-e 's/^ *syslog *: *//' \
-e 's/%s/main/'`
if [ "$LOG_FILE_NAME" = "" ] ; then
- LOG_FILE_NAME=$SPOOL_DIRECTORY/log/mainlog
+ COMPILETIMEDEFAULT=`$EXIM_PATH -C /dev/null -bP log_file_path | \
+ sed -e 's/.*=[ ]*//' \
+ -e 's/ *: *syslog *: */:/' \
+ -e 's/ *: *syslog *$//' \
+ -e 's/^ *syslog *: *//' \
+ -e 's/%s/main/'`
+ if [ "$COMPILETIMEDEFAULT" != "" ] ; then
+ LOG_FILE_NAME="$COMPILETIMEDEFAULT"
+ else
+ LOG_FILE_NAME=$SPOOL_DIRECTORY/log/mainlog
+ fi
fi
fi