makemap(1M)                                               System Administration Commands                                               makemap(1M)

NAME

       makemap - create database maps for sendmail

SYNOPSIS

       makemap [-N] [-d] [-f] [-o] [-r] [-s] [-v] [-C file] [-c cachesize] [-D commentchar] [-e] [-l] [-t delim] [-u] mantype mapname

DESCRIPTION

       makemap  creates  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 may 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.  Database format is selected using the maptype parameter. See OPERANDS.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -c cachesize    Use the specified hash and B-Tree cache size (cachesize).

       -C file         Use the specified sendmail configuration file (file) for looking up the TrustedUser option.

       -d              Allow duplicate keys in the map. This is only allowed on B-Tree format maps. If  two  identical  keys  are  read,  both  be
                       inserted into the map.

       -D commentchar  Use the specified character to indicate a comment (which is ignored) instead of the default of '#'.

       -e              Allow empty value (right hand side).

       -f              Normally, all upper case letters in the key are folded to lower case. This flag disables that behavior. This is intended to
                       mesh with the -f flag in the K line in sendmail.cf. The value is never case folded.

       -l              List supported map types.

       -N              Include the null byte that terminates strings in the map. This must match the -N flag in the K line in sendmail.cf

       -o              Append to an old file. This allows you to augment an existing file.

       -r              Allow replacement of existing keys. Normally makemap complains if you repeat a key, and does not do the insert.

       -s              Ignore safety checks on maps being created. This includes checking for hard or symbolic links in  world  writable  directo-
                       ries.

       -t delim        Use the specified delimiter (delim) instead of white space.

       -u              Dump (unmap) the content of the database to standard output.

       -v              Verbosely print what it is doing.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       mapname         File name of the database map being created.

       maptype         Specifies the database format. The following maptype parameters are available:

                       dbm             Specifies DBM format maps.

                       btree           Specifies B-Tree format maps.

                       hash            Specifies hash format maps.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWsndmu                    |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       editmap(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          29 Jun 2004                                                        makemap(1M)