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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:59:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.oau.org>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Makemap
Message-ID:  <199712121759.MAA15499@bilver.magicnet.net>

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Recently Jack Wenger said:
> Thanx to all the replies. Unfortunately, I have to rebuild the mail map by
> hand. When I made the > typo, it whacked the table also. Look out Best Buy,
> I agettin' a tape drive!

Why should you have to run makemap by hand.  On this machine I have
only the mailertable script (below) while on other I have these
simple one line scripts for others including virtusertable.

It's quick, easy, and prevents you from making mistreaks :-)
(Boy was it LONG one yesterday - got home at 4AM but the client was
ready to when they opened at 6:30)

Type this in and make it executebable.

#!/bin/sh
makemap -v hash /etc/mailertable </etc/mailertable

This won't help you recover the lost work, but will save it for the
future.  

If your tables are big, then add a line to copy the first table 
to a backup file.  This keeps you alive from unexpected things like
power failures - I've seen people acciedentally turn of UPSes -
resets, or phases of the moon.

Bill

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