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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 00:47:27 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 00:47:27 +0000 |
commit | d5eb37dd4a5a433c40c3c1e7ead424add62663f8 (patch) | |
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parent | Adding upstream version 4.92. (diff) | |
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diff --git a/debian/manpages/exim_dbmbuild.8 b/debian/manpages/exim_dbmbuild.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b4658a --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/manpages/exim_dbmbuild.8 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps +.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection +.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) +.TH EXIM_DBMBUILD 8 "March 26, 2003" +.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. +.\" +.\" Some roff macros, for reference: +.\" .nh disable hyphenation +.\" .hy enable hyphenation +.\" .ad l left justify +.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins +.\" .nf disable filling +.\" .fi enable filling +.\" .br insert line break +.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.\" \(oqthis text is enclosed in single quotes\(cq +.\" \(lqthis text is enclosed in double quotes\(rq +.SH NAME +exim_dbmbuild \- Build a DBM file. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B exim_dbmbuild +.I [\-nolc] [\-nozero] [\-noduperr] [\-nowarn] inputfile|\- outputfile + +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B exim_dbmbuild +program reads an input file containing keys and data in +the format used by the +.I lsearch +lookup (see section 9.1). +It writes a DBM file using the lower-cased alias names as keys and the +remainder of the information as data. +The lower-casing can be prevented by calling the program with the +.I \-nolc +option. + +A terminating zero is included as part of the key string. +This is expected by the dbm lookup type. +However, if the option +.I \-nozero +is given, +.B exim_dbmbuild +creates files without terminating zeroes in either the key strings or the +data strings. +The +.I dbmnz +lookup type can be used with such files. + +The program requires two arguments: the name of the input file (which can +be a single hyphen to indicate the standard input), and the name of the +output file. +It creates the output under a temporary name, and then renames it if all +went well. +If the native DB interface is in use (USE_DB is set in a compile-time +configuration file - this is common in free versions of Unix) the two file +names must be different, because in this mode the Berkeley DB functions +create a single output file using exactly the name given. +For example, + + exim_dbmbuild /etc/aliases /etc/aliases.db + +reads the system alias file and creates a DBM version of it in +/etc/aliases.db. + +In systems that use the +.I ndbm +routines (mostly proprietary versions of Unix), two files are used, with the +suffixes .dir and .pag. +In this environment, the suffixes are added to the second argument of +.B exim_dbmbuild, +so it can be the same as the first. +This is also the case when the Berkeley functions are used in +compatibility mode (though this is not recommended), because in that case +it adds a .db suffix to the file name. + +If a duplicate key is encountered, the program outputs a warning, and when +it finishes, its return code is 1 rather than zero, unless the +.I \-noduperr +option is used. +By default, only the first of a set of duplicates is used - this makes it +compatible with lsearch lookups. +There is an option +.I \-lastdup +which causes it to use the data for the last duplicate instead. +There is also an option +.I \-nowarn, +which stops it listing duplicate keys to \(lqstderr\(rq. +For other errors, where it doesn't actually make a new file, the return +code is 2. + +.SH BUGS +This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff +than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches +would be greatly appreciated. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR exim (8), +/usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/ + +.SH AUTHOR +This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by +Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, +for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |