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nicknames
— map
nickname translation file for NIS (YP)
The ypcat(1),
ypmatch(1), and
ypwhich(1) commands reference
NIS (YP) maps as specified by the user. Occasionally it is desirable to use
a shorthand reference for a longer map name, hence the
nicknames
file, kept in
“/var/yp/nicknames.”
The format of the file is
nickname map
one pair per line. The default installed nickname map is as follows:
A blank or incomplete nicknames
file will
affect any scripts which use nicknames for map lookup, whereas if the file
is simply missing, the default compiled-in list will be used.
The nicknames
file first appeared in
Solaris 2.4.
August 28, 2003 | NetBSD 10.99 |