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   1 .TH qmail-newmrh 8
   2 .SH NAME
   3 qmail-newmrh \- prepare morercpthosts for qmail-smtpd
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B qmail-newmrh
   6 .SH DESCRIPTION
   7 .B qmail-newmrh
   8 reads the instructions in
   9 .B QMAILHOME/control/morercpthosts
  10 and writes them into
  11 .B QMAILHOME/control/morercpthosts.cdb
  12 in a binary format suited
  13 for quick access by
  14 .BR qmail-smtpd .
  15
  16 If there is a problem with
  17 .BR control/morercpthosts ,
  18 .B qmail-newmrh
  19 complains and leaves
  20 .B control/morercpthosts.cdb
  21 alone.
  22
  23 .B qmail-newmrh
  24 ensures that
  25 .B control/morercpthosts.cdb
  26 is updated atomically,
  27 so
  28 .B qmail-smtpd
  29 never has to wait for
  30 .B qmail-newmrh
  31 to finish.
  32 However,
  33 .B qmail-newmrh
  34 makes no attempt to protect against two simultaneous updates of
  35 .BR control/morercpthosts.cdb .
  36
  37 The binary
  38 .B control/morercpthosts.cdb
  39 format is portable across machines.
  40 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  41 qmail-smtpd(8)