Name
-C
Synopsis
If the TrustedUser
option (TrustedUser) is set in the sendmail
configuration file, and if editmap was compiled
with HASFCHOWN defined as 1
, and if
editmap is run by root, the
output file will become owned by the user specified in the
TrustedUser
option. The
editmap program finds the
TrustedUser
option by reading and parsing the
sendmail program’s
configuration file (normally
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf). But if you want
editmap to use a different configuration file,
you can specify that different file with this -C
switch. For example:
# editmap -x -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.new hash spamhosts host.spam-site.com
Here, we use editmap to delete the key
host.spam-site.com from the database
spamhosts. Because editmap
was run by root (the #
prompt), editmap looks up the
TrustedUser
option in the alternative
configuration file specified by the -C
(/etc/mail/sendmail.cf.new). If that option had,
for example, a value of bin,
editmap would set the owner of the database to
bin.
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