05-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by blowtorch
We have a table named hosts under org_dir. Try searching for something like that. Then you can use 'niscat hosts.org_dir'
I think that maybe synonamous with the above getent hosts becasue the command is also looking in the hosts map. NIS clients do not need to be listed in the hosts file to join a domain. Unless the joining of the client to the domain appends the client name to the hosts map.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Thanks,
Michael
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mknetid
MKNETID(8) Reference Manual MKNETID(8)
NAME
mknetid - generate data for netid map
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid [ -q ] [ -h hosts ] [ -p passwd ] [ -g group ] [ -d domain ] [ -n netid ]
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid --version
DESCRIPTION
mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple
entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is only called by /var/yp/Makefile when rebuilding the NIS map.
OPTIONS
-q This flag turns on 'quiet' mode, don't print a warning message when finding an duplicate netid entry.
-h hosts
The -h flag can be used to specify the use of another hosts file than the default /etc/hosts.
-p passwd
The -p flag can be used to specify the use of another passwd file than the default /etc/passwd.
-g group
The -g flag can be used to specify the use of another group file than the default /etc/group.
-n netid
The -n flag can be used to specify the use of another netid file than the default /etc/netid.
-d domain
The mknetid command uses the system domainname by default. If it is not set or you whish to override it, you must use the -d parame-
ter.
--version
Prints the version number
FILES
/etc/group groups file
/etc/hosts hosts database
/etc/netid netname database
/etc/passwd password file
SEE ALSO
passwd(8), group(5), hosts(5), passwd(5)
AUTHOR
mknetid was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.
YP Server August 2001 MKNETID(8)