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Subject: bin/5265: makemap wedges at the first read of the datafile
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>Number:         5265
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       makemap wedges at the first read of the datafile
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec  9 20:40:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Harlan Stenn
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	both 2.2.5 and 2.2.5-stable

>Description:

 Running, say:

	makemap hash /etc/mailertable

 results in a hung process (reads without success) and an /etc/mailertable.db
 file that has no entries in it.  This is kinda bad for sendmail...

>How-To-Repeat:

	See Description.

>Fix:
	
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: