Man pages are meant for humans. It's not wrong, it's just hard to read. Greetings Hans-Cees
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > Op 26 feb. 2023 om 22:35 heeft Jaroslaw Rafa <r...@rafa.eu.org> het volgende > geschreven: > > Dnia 26.02.2023 o godz. 21:01:42 HCImap pisze: >> >> As for your last lines: postmap without the cidr works fine to >> create a db file, and in the manfile I could find no directions here >> (there is a little line in man cidr, but I couldnt understand it >> enough to be helpful). > > Let's look at "man postmap": > > SYNOPSIS > postmap [-Nbfhimnoprsuvw] [-c config_dir] [-d key] [-q key] > [file_type:]file_name ... > > Note that the "file_type:" part is optional. One might (and should!) wonder, > what is the default? > > Maybe we can find an answer later in the manual... > > file_type > The database type. To find out what types are supported, use the > "postconf -m" command. > > The postmap(1) command can query any supported file type, but it > can create only the following file types: > > btree The output file is a btree file, named file_name.db. > This is available on systems with support for db data‐ > bases. > > cdb The output consists of one file, named file_name.cdb. > This is available on systems with support for cdb data‐ > bases. > > dbm The output consists of two files, named file_name.pag and > file_name.dir. This is available on systems with support > for dbm databases. > > hash The output file is a hashed file, named file_name.db. > This is available on systems with support for db data‐ > bases. > > fail A table that reliably fails all requests. The lookup ta‐ > ble name is used for logging only. This table exists to > simplify Postfix error tests. > > sdbm The output consists of two files, named file_name.pag and > file_name.dir. This is available on systems with support > for sdbm databases. > > When no file_type is specified, the software uses the database > type specified via the default_database_type configuration > parameter. > > So from the above we know: > a) what are the *all possible* file types that you can generate using > postmap (which means you don't have to run potmap for the other types) > b) how to find out which of the above are supported on your system > c) how to find out what is the default for "file_type:" on your system. > -- > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > r...@rafa.eu.org > -- > "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there > was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
