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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 con‐
     taining 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 separating 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 suit‐
	     able 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
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