exim_dbmbuild(d)                                 exim_dbmbuild(d)



NAME
       exim_dbmbuild - program to build a database file for exim

SYNOPSIS
       exim_dbmbuild inputfile basename

DESCRIPTION
       The  exim_dbmbuild program reads an input file in the for-
       mat of an alias file (see chapter 20)  and  writes  a  DBM
       database using the lower-cased alias names as keys and the
       remainder of the information as data.  Two  arguments  are
       required:  the name of the input file (which can be a sin-
       gle hyphen to indicate the standard input), and  the  base
       name of the output database. For example:

         exim_dbmbuild /etc/aliases /etc/aliases

       reads  the  system  alias  file and creates a DBM database
       using /etc/aliases as the base name. In systems  that  use
       the  ndbm  routines,  the  database  consists of two files
       called    (in    this    case)    /etc/aliases.dir     and
       /etc/aliases.pag,  while  in systems using the ndbm inter-
       face  to  the   db   routines   a   single   file   called
       /etc/aliases.db  is used. If the native db interface is in
       use (USE_DB is set in a compile-time  configuration  file)
       then  a  single file with no added prefix is used. In this
       case the two file names on the command line must  be  dif-
       ferent.  The  utility in fact creates the database under a
       temporary name, and then renames the file(e).

SEE ALSO
       There   is   extensive    documentation    available    in
       /usr/share/doc/exim and in the info system regarding exim.
       Please be sure to have the exim-doc package installed.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was stitched together by Christoph  Lame-
       ter  <clameter@debian.org> from the original documentation
       coming with the sourcepackage  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system.



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