NAME

makedbm — create a YP database

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

makedbm is the utility in YP that creates the database file containing the YP map. The database format is a slightly modified version of ndbm.

The options are as follows:

-b

Interdomain. Include an entry in the database informing a YP server to use DNS to get information about unknown hosts. This option will only have effect on the two maps hosts.byname and hosts.byaddr.

-d yp_domain_name

Include an entry in the map with the key YP_DOMAIN_NAME and the argument as value.

-i yp_input_file

Include an entry in the map with the key YP_INPUT_FILE and the argument as value.

-l

Lowercase. Convert all keys to lower case before adding them to the YP database.

-m yp_master_name

Include an entry in the map with the key YP_MASTER_NAME and the argument as value.

-o yp_output_file

Include an entry in the map with the key YP_OUTPUT_FILE and the argument as value.

-s

Secure map. Include an entry in the database informing ypxfr(8) and ypserv(8) that the YP map is going to be handled as secure.

-U

Same as -u but also try the hash(3) format.

-u

Dump a database to standard output.

SEE ALSO

dbopen(3), Makefile.yp(8), yp(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

AUTHORS

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