makedbm(8) [netbsd man page]

MAKEDBM(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						MAKEDBM(8)

NAME

     makedbm -- create a NIS database

SYNOPSIS

     makedbm -u dbfile
     makedbm [-bls] [-d yp_domain_name] [-i yp_input_file] [-m yp_master_name] [-o yp_output_file] infile outfile

DESCRIPTION

     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 sepa-
     rating 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.

SEE ALSO

     db(3), nis(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

AUTHORS

     Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se>

BSD
								 February 26, 2005							       BSD

makedbm(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       makedbm(1M)

NAME

       makedbm - make a dbm file, or get a text file from a dbm file

SYNOPSIS

       makedbm	[-b]  [-l]  [-s]  [-E]	[-i yp_input_file]  [-o yp_output_name]  [-d yp_domain_name]  [-m yp_master_name]  [-S delimiter] [-D num-
       ber_of_delimiters] infile outfile

       makedbm [-u dbmfilename]

DESCRIPTION

       The makedbm utility takes the  infile and converts it to a pair of files in ndbm format (see ndbm(3C)), namely outfile.pag and outfile.dir.
       Each  line of the input file is converted to a single dbm record. All characters up to the first TAB or SPACE form the key, and the rest of
       the line is the data. If a line ends with `' (backslash), the data for that record is continued on to the  next  line.	makedbm  does  not
       treat `#' (pound-sign) as a special character.

       Because	 makedbm is mainly used in generating dbm files for the  NIS name service, it generates a special entry with the key yp_last_modi-
       fied, which is the date of infile (or the current time, if infile is `-').  The entries that have keys with the prefix yp_ are  interpreted
       by NIS server utilities.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -b		       Insert  the   YP_INTERDOMAIN  into  the	output.  This key causes  ypserv(1M) to use  DNS for host name and address
			       lookups for hosts not found in the maps.

       -d yp_domain_name       Create a special entry with the key yp_domain_name.

       -D number_of delimiters Specify number_of_delimiters to skip before forming the key.

       -E		       Delimiters are escaped.

       -i yp_input_file        Create a special entry with the key yp_input_file.

       -l		       Lower case. Convert the keys of the given map to lower case, so that, for example, host name matches succeed  inde-
			       pendent of upper or lower case distinctions.

       -m yp_master_name       Create  a  special entry with the key yp_master_name. If no master host name is specified, yp_master_name is set to
			       the local host name.

       -o yp_output_name       Create a special entry with the key yp_output_name.

       -s		       Secure map. Accept connections from secure  NIS networks only.

       -S delimiter	       Specify the delimiter to use instead of the default delimiter for forming the key.

       -u dbmfilename	       Undo a dbm file.  Prints out the file in text format, one entry per line, with a single space separating keys  from
			       values.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       infile	       Input file for makedbm. If infile is `-' (dash), the standard input is read.

       outfile	       One of two output files in ndbm format: outfile.pag and outfile.dir.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ypserv(1M), ndbm(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    17 Aug 1999 						       makedbm(1M)