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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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makedbm — Make a dbm File or Get a Text File from a dbm File

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/makedbm [-b][-l][-s][-E][-i yp-input-file]
  [-o yp-output-name][-d yp-domain-name][-m yp-master-name]
  [-S delimiter][-D number-of-delimiters] infile
						outfile
/usr/sbin/makedbm [-u dbmfilename]

Description

makedbm is mainly used to generate NIS maps from text files. You do not invoke the makedbm command directly. It is called from the /var/yp/Makefile script. It generates a special entry with the key yp_last_modified, 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 commands.

The makedbm command converts the infile to a pair of files in ndbm format (see dbm_clearerr(3C)), ...

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