makedbm
—
create a NIS database
makedbm |
[-bls ] [-d
yp_domain_name] [-i
yp_input_file] [-m
yp_master_name] [-o
yp_output_file] infile
outfile |
makedbm
is the utility in NIS that creates the
db(3) database file containing the
NIS map.
infile is the pathname of the source file
(where “-” is standard input). Each line consists of the key
and the value, with a space separating the items. Blank lines are ignored,
and a “#” is a comment character and indicates that the rest
of the line should be ignored.
outfile is the pathname of the generated
database.
The options are as follows:
-b
- Interdomain. Include an entry in the database informing a NIS server to
use DNS to get information about unknown hosts. This option will only have
effect on the maps hosts.byname and
hosts.byaddr.
-l
- Lowercase. Convert all keys to lower case before adding them to the NIS
database.
-s
- Secure map. Include an entry in the database informing
ypxfr(8) and
ypserv(8) that the NIS map
is going to be handled as secure (i.e., not served to clients that don't
connect from a reserved port).
-d
yp_domain_name
- Include an entry in the map with ‘YP_DOMAIN_NAME’ as the key
and yp_domain_name as the value.
-i
yp_input_file
- Include an entry in the map with ‘YP_INPUT_FILE’ as the key
and yp_input_file as the value.
-m
yp_master_name
- Include an entry in the map with ‘YP_MASTER_NAME’ as the key
and yp_master_name as the value.
-o
yp_output_file
- Include an entry in the map with ‘YP_OUTPUT_FILE’ as the key
and yp_output_file as the value.
-u
dbfile
- Dump the contents of dbfile to standard output, in a
format suitable to be passed back into
makedbm
.
dbfile is the pathname to the database.