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From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Subject: Re: bin/5265: makemap wedges at the first read of the datafile
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5265; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/5265: makemap wedges at the first read of the datafile
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 07:46:35 +0200 (SAT)

 >  Running, say:
 > 
 > 	makemap hash /etc/mailertable
 > 
 >  results in a hung process (reads without success) and an /etc/mailertable.db
 >  file that has no entries in it.  This is kinda bad for sendmail...
 > 
 
 Uhm, I have always done
 
 makemap hash /etc/mailertable.db < /etc/mailertable
 
 and this does work. According to the man page:
 
 NAME
      makemap - create database maps for sendmail
 
 SYNOPSIS
      makemap [-N] [-d] [-f] [-o] [-r] [-v] maptype mapname
 
 DESCRIPTION
      makemap creates the database maps used by the keyed map lookups in
      sendmail(8).  It reads input from the standard input and outputs them to
      the indicated mapname.
 
 John
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 John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za