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Idiot's Guide to Mac OSX BSD?
Post 302152391 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Wednesday 19th of December 2007 06:07:36 PM
12-19-2007
The macenterprise.com mailing list is pretty busy, and can provide a lot of information. You can search their archives without signing up.
Another good resource for OS X specific information is macosxhints.com. They categorize the hints, so a quick search of the "System" category can help for those "how do i..." times.
Apple likes to make significant changes to the system tools. The biggest one I can think of off the top of my head is the NetInfo database. It was a part of all OS X versions through Tiger (10.4.x). The "ni" commands were pretty well known to Mac admins.
Apple completely removed NetInfo from Leopard (10.5).
To their credit, they included Directory Services (the replacement for NetInfo) "ds" commands in Tiger as well, so admins could get used to living without ni commands well before Leopard, and move forward at a leisurely pace converting scripts that required it.
Good Luck, and Good Fun!
Another good resource for OS X specific information is macosxhints.com. They categorize the hints, so a quick search of the "System" category can help for those "how do i..." times.
Apple likes to make significant changes to the system tools. The biggest one I can think of off the top of my head is the NetInfo database. It was a part of all OS X versions through Tiger (10.4.x). The "ni" commands were pretty well known to Mac admins.
Apple completely removed NetInfo from Leopard (10.5).
To their credit, they included Directory Services (the replacement for NetInfo) "ds" commands in Tiger as well, so admins could get used to living without ni commands well before Leopard, and move forward at a leisurely pace converting scripts that required it.
Good Luck, and Good Fun!
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nibindd
NIBINDD(8) System Manager's Manual NIBINDD(8) NAME
nibindd - NetInfo binder SYNOPSIS
nibindd DESCRIPTION
The nibindd daemon is responsible for finding, creating and destroying NetInfo (netinfod(8)) servers. When it starts up, it reads the directory /etc/netinfo for directories with the extension ``.nidb'' and starts up a netinfod server for each NetInfo database it finds. If nibindd is sent a hangup signal, SIGHUP, it kills all running netinfod processes and rebinds the NetInfo domain hierarchy (note that this does not affect the connections established by lookupd(8)). This is useful for getting the system to conform to new network configuration changes without rebooting. nibindd writes a file with its process ID number (pid file) in /var/run/nibindd.pid. The nibindd daemon will automatically destroy the registration for a netinfod server if it disappears for any reason. It will take the netinfod servers down if it is shut down by sending it a terminate signal, SIGTERM. nidomain(8) is the user interface to nibindd. FILES
/etc/netinfo /var/run/nibindd.pid SEE ALSO
netinfod(8), nidomain(8), lookupd(8) Apple Computer, Inc. March 30, 1998 NIBINDD(8)