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[heinlein at madboa.com (Paul Heinlein)]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, rado wrote:

> kk I got rid of that other masquerade feature...

> I did add a feature `generictable' line ....by the book...tried to 
> add a file w/ a user username@otherdomain called it idealusers then 
> the book said to run makemap hash /etc/mail/idealusers (in my case)
>
> and I never could get the prompt to come back...like it was hung

makemap expects to receive something via standard input (stdin); the 
proper invocation (and the one I included on my howto page) would be

   makemap hash /etc/mail/idealusers < /etc/mail/idealusers

You'll end up with a file /etc/mail/idealusers.db. If you've 
configured sendmail properly, there also ought to be line in 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf that points to your file:

   Kgenerics hash /etc/mail/idealusers

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