document how to enable YP for each database

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man5/ethers.5 b/share/man/man5/ethers.5
index 25f6de26e93..73ac69c58ef 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/ethers.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/ethers.5
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 .Nd Ethernet host name data base
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
-.Xr ethers
+.Nm ethers
 file maps Ethernet addresses to host names.
 Lines consist of an address and a host name, separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.
 A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Ethernet addresses are expressed as six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons.
 and
 .Xr ether_aton 3
 can read and produce this format.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm ethers
+file has support for YP functionality.  For more information, see
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /etc/ethers -compact
 .It Pa /etc/ethers
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