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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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makemap — Create Database Maps for sendmail

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/makemap [-N][-d][-f][-o][-r][-s][-v] mantype
						mapname
					

Description

Use the makemap command to create the binary form of the database maps used by the keyed map lookups in sendmail(1M). makemap reads from the standard input and outputs to the specified mapname.

In all cases, makemap reads lines from the standard input consisting of two words separated by white space. The first is the database key, the second is the value. The value can contain %n strings to indicated parameter substitution. Literal percents should be doubled (%%). Blank lines and lines beginning with # are ignored.

makemap handles three different database formats, which you choose by specifying the maptype parameter. ...

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