Name
create_nidb
Synopsis
create_nidb [tag
[master_hostname
[root_dir
]]]
A Perl program that creates and populates an Open Directory database from the contents of flat files in /etc/. This may be especially useful if you have configuration information you wish to carry over from another Unix system. Currently, create_nidb uses the following files:
/etc/master.passwd |
/etc/group |
/etc/hosts |
/etc/networks |
create_nidb should be run with superuser privileges.
Options
-
master_hostname
The name of the host serving the master copy of the Open Directory database. The default is
localhost
if the tag islocal
; otherwise, it’s the hostname of the system on which create_nidb is run.-
root_dir
The directory in which var/db/netinfo/tag.nidb is created. The default is
/
.-
tag
The tag of the Open Directory database. The default is
local
.
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