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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-05-12 09:15:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-05-12 09:15:20 +0000 |
| commit | e78c4d4462f62cb9d000732d49ff5e4b61bd020b (patch) | |
| tree | e3b6b4b639d7ff8cb67df9ad02d18cb0d087f31d /share/man/man5/networks.5 | |
| parent | c303b3d5a83ebd80bba2e07f533aff20f2d00f2f (diff) | |
document how to enable YP for each database
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5/networks.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/networks.5 | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/networks.5 b/share/man/man5/networks.5 index 0ce008cc1be..ecd9ff2b1da 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/networks.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/networks.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: networks.5,v 1.3 1998/03/16 05:06:47 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: networks.5,v 1.4 1998/05/12 09:15:18 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: networks.5,v 1.3 1994/11/30 19:31:23 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 @@ -75,8 +75,19 @@ delimiter, newline, or comment character. .Pp The .Nm networks -file should be obsoleted by the network information faclities of the -name server. +file is largely obsoleted by the network information facilities of the +name server in the following way: +.Pp +The system configuration file +.Xr resolv.conf 5 +controls where host name information will be searched for. +The mechanism provided permits the administrator to describe the +databases to search; the databases currently known include +.Xr yp 5 , +DNS +and the +.Xr hosts 5 +database. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/networks -compact .It Pa /etc/networks |