1 .TH qmail-newu 8

     2 .SH NAME

     3 qmail-newu \- prepare address assignments for qmail-lspawn

     4 .SH SYNOPSIS

     5 .B qmail-newu

     6 .SH DESCRIPTION

     7 .B qmail-newu

     8 reads the assignments in

     9 .B QMAILHOME/users/assign

    10 and writes them into

    11 .B QMAILHOME/users/cdb

    12 in a binary format suited

    13 for quick access by

    14 .BR qmail-lspawn .

    15 

    16 If there is a problem with

    17 .BR users/assign ,

    18 .B qmail-newu

    19 complains and leaves

    20 .B users/cdb

    21 alone.

    22 

    23 .B qmail-newu

    24 ensures that

    25 .B users/cdb

    26 is updated atomically,

    27 so

    28 .B qmail-lspawn

    29 never has to wait for

    30 .B qmail-newu

    31 to finish.

    32 However,

    33 .B qmail-newu

    34 makes no attempt to protect against two simultaneous updates of

    35 .BR users/cdb .

    36 

    37 The binary

    38 .B users/cdb

    39 format is portable across machines.

    40 .SH "SEE ALSO"

    41 qmail-users(5),

    42 qmail-lspawn(8),

    43 qmail-pw2u(8)