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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1985 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 55270cae | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)mkhosts.8 6.4 (Berkeley) %G% | |
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17 | .\" |
| 18 | .TH MKHOSTS 8 "" | |
| 19 | .UC 6 | |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 56e2d6be | 21 | mkhosts \- generate hashed host table |
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22 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 23 | .B /etc/mkhosts | |
| 24 | [ | |
| 25 | .B \-v | |
| 26 | ] | |
| 27 | hostfile | |
| 28 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 29 | .I Mkhosts | |
| 6a841d1b | 30 | is used to generated the hashed host database used by one version of the |
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31 | library routines |
| 32 | .B gethostbyaddr() | |
| 33 | and | |
| 34 | .BR gethostbyname() . | |
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35 | It is not used if host name translation is performed by |
| 36 | .IR named (8). | |
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37 | If the |
| 38 | .B \-v | |
| 39 | option is supplied, each host will be listed as it is added. | |
| 40 | The file | |
| 41 | .I hostfile | |
| 42 | is usually /etc/hosts, and in any case | |
| 43 | must be in the format of /etc/hosts (see hosts(5)). | |
| 44 | .I Mkhosts | |
| 45 | will generate database files named | |
| 46 | .I hostfile.pag | |
| 47 | and | |
| 48 | .I hostfile.dir. | |
| 49 | The new database is build in a set of temporary files and | |
| 50 | only replaces the real database if the new one is built | |
| 51 | without errors. | |
| 52 | .I Mkhosts | |
| 53 | will exit with a non-zero exit code if any errors are detected. | |
| 54 | .SH FILES | |
| 55 | .ta \w'hostfile.new.dir 'u | |
| 56 | \fIhostfile\fR.pag - real database filenames | |
| 57 | .br | |
| 58 | \fIhostfile\fR.dir | |
| 59 | .br | |
| 60 | \fIhostfile\fR.new.pag - temporary database filenames | |
| 61 | .br | |
| 62 | \fIhostfile\fR.new.dir | |
| 63 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 6a841d1b | 64 | gethostbyname(3), gettable(8), hosts(5), htable(8), named(8) |