X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/ce80533b305c56d57cb7ec1484491f191132cf84..HEAD:/test/README?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 5b3a86966..36cdd6984 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met: is also an IPv6 address, additional tests are run when the Exim binary contains IPv6 support. There are checks in the scripts for a running IPv4 interface; when one is not found, some tests are skipped (with a warning - message). The local net may not be in 10.0/8 as that is used by the suite. + message). The local net may not be in 10.250.0/16 as that is used by the suite. (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 @@ -702,6 +702,11 @@ Commands with no input These commands are not followed by any input data, or by a line of asterisks. + ### This is a verbose comment + +A line starting with three hashmarks and some space copies the following text to +both stdout and stderr file being written by the test. + dbmbuild This command runs the exim_dbmbuild utility to build a DBM file. It is used @@ -724,7 +729,8 @@ scripts. exim_lock [options] This command runs the exim_lock utility with the given options and file name. -The file remains locked with the following command (normally exim) is obeyed. +The file remains locked for following commands until a non-daemon "exim" +completes. exinext @@ -969,8 +975,9 @@ connections. Here are some example commands: The following lines, up to a line of four asterisks, are the server's controlling standard input (described below). These lines are read and -remembered; during the following commands, until an "exim" command is reached, -the server is run in parallel. +remembered; during the following commands, until a non-deamon "exim" command +is reached, the server is run in parallel. Then the server termination +is waited for. write [nxm[=start-of-line-text]]* @@ -1046,7 +1053,7 @@ Lines in client scripts are of several kinds: (7) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any occurrences of \r and \n in the line are turned into carriage return and linefeed, respectively. This is used for testing PIPELINING. - Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equvalent + Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equivalent byte value. Any other character following a \ is sent verbatim. The line is sent with a trailing "\r\n".