From e78c4d4462f62cb9d000732d49ff5e4b61bd020b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theo de Raadt Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:15:20 +0000 Subject: document how to enable YP for each database --- share/man/man5/ethers.5 | 6 +++++- share/man/man5/networks.5 | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'share/man') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3