05-24-2005
Hey,
tnx for the tip!
Checked out uname in man-pages and came up with the following:
Quote:
-r Display the current release level of the operating system.
When executed:
Great!
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pwgrd(1M) pwgrd(1M)
NAME
pwgrd - password and group hashing and caching daemon
SYNOPSIS
logfile]
DESCRIPTION
provides accelerated lookup of password and group information for libc routines like and implements per request type caches and hashtables
as appropriate. When the corresponding routine in libc is called, a request is issued to via a Unix domain socket connection. determines
whether it can satisfy the request, returning the appropriate results to the requesting process.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Debug mode. Do not become a daemon.
Issue additional diagnostic messages. Instead of logging message via issue messages to stderr.
Logfile. In addition to logging via
will write log messages to logfile.
modifies its behavior depending on whether or not the local machine is using some form of NIS for password or group information. When NIS
is being used, the hashtables corresponding to that service are not generated or consulted. Therefore only caching is provided for those
requests.
AUTHOR
was developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company.
FILES
Start up configuration variable. Set to if you want to start on reboot.
Hash files, status file and daemon Unix domain socket.
Client Unix domain sockets.
SEE ALSO
pwgr_stat(1M).
pwgrd(1M)