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.
(5) Exim must be built with its user and group specified at build time, and
with certain minimum facilities, namely:
- Routers: accept, dnslookup, manualroute, redirect
- Transports: appendfile, autoreply, pipe, smtp
- Lookups: lsearch
+ Routers: accept, dnslookup, manualroute, redirect
+ Transports: appendfile, autoreply, pipe, smtp
+ Lookups: lsearch
+ Authenticators: plaintext
Most Exim binaries will have these included.
(9) Exim must be built with TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST support, so that the test
configs can be placed into it. A suitable file location is .../exim/test/trusted_configs
+ with content .../exim/test/test-config [fill out the ... to make full
+ paths]. This file should be owner/group matching CONFIGURE_OWNER/GROUP,
+ or root/root. The config files in .../exim/test/confs/ should be owner/group the same.
DISABLE_D_OPTION must not be used. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is used, it
must contain the directory of the test-suite. WHITELIST_D_MACROS should contain:
be on by default and you'll see this problem, so make sure your umask is
022 and re-checkout the test/ subdirectory.
+. Some tests will fail if the username and group name are different. It does
+ not have to be the primary group, a secondary group is sufficient.
+
OTHER SCRIPTS AND PROGRAMS
--------------------------
"write" command (see below) that creates the input file.
- dumpdb <dbname>
+ dump <dbname>
This command runs the exim_dumpdb utility on the testing spool directory, using
the database name given, for example: "dumpdb retry".
munge <name>
This command requests custom munging of the test outputs. The munge names
-used are coded in the runtest script.
+used are coded in the runtest script (look for 'name of munge').
need_ipv4
It is controlled by a script read from its standard input, details of which are
given below. There are two options. One is -t, which must be followed directly
by a number, to specify the command timeout in seconds (e.g. -t5). The default
-timeout is 1 second. The other option is -tls-on-connect, which causes the
+timeout is 5 seconds. The other option is -tls-on-connect, which causes the
client to try to start up a TLS session as soon as it has connected, without
using the STARTTLS command. The client program connects to the given IP address
and port, using the specified interface, if one is given.
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>]
-d causes the server to output debugging information
- -t sets a timeout in seconds (default 5) for when the server is
+ -t <sec> sets a timeout (default 5) for when the server is
awaiting an incoming connection
-noipv4 causes the server not to set up an IPv4 socket
-noipv6 causes the server not to set up an IPv6 socket
+ -i <sec> sets an initial pause, to delay before creating the listen sockets
+
By default, in an IPv6 environment, both kinds of socket are set up. However,
the test script knows which interfaces actually exist on the host, and it adds
-noipv4 or -noipv6 to the server command as required. An error occurs if both
(d) If the line starts with ">*eof", nothing is sent and the connection
is closed.
- The data that is sent starts after the initial '>' sequence.
+ The data that is sent starts after the initial '>' sequence. Within
+ each line the sequence '\x' followed by two hex digits can be used
+ to specify an arbitrary byte value. The sequence '\\' specifies a
+ single backslash.
(2) A line that starts with "*sleep" specifies a number of seconds to wait
before proceeding.
(5) Otherwise, the line defines the start of an input line that the client
is expected to send. To allow for lines that start with digits, the line
may start with '<', which is not taken as part of the input data. If the
- input does not match, the server bombs out with an error message.
+ lines starts with '<<' then only the characters are expected; no return-
+ linefeed terminator. If the input does not match, the server bombs out
+ with an error message. Backslash-escape sequences may be used in the
+ line content as for output lines.
Here is a simple example of server use in a test script:
git://git.exim.org / users / jgh / exim.git / blobdiff