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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
committerPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
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The .Nm utility
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=99968
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/yp_mkdb/yp_mkdb.8 b/usr.sbin/yp_mkdb/yp_mkdb.8
index f0d3651440af..f7b8f2242bd3 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/yp_mkdb/yp_mkdb.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/yp_mkdb/yp_mkdb.8
@@ -53,14 +53,16 @@
.Ar inputfile
.Ar dbname
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Yp_mkdb
-creates
+The
+.Nm
+utility creates
.Xr db 3
style databases for use with
.Fx Ns 's
NIS server.
-.Nm Yp_mkdb
-reads data from
+The
+.Nm
+utility reads data from
.Ar inputfile ,
and writes it to
.Ar dbname
@@ -79,11 +81,13 @@ These databases are typically stored in
where
.Ar domainname
is the name of the NIS domain being served.
-.Nm Yp_mkdb
-is usually invoked by
+The
+.Nm
+utility is usually invoked by
.Pa /var/yp/Makefile .
-.Nm Yp_mkdb
-can also be used to dump an NIS database file so that its
+The
+.Nm
+utility can also be used to dump an NIS database file so that its
contents can be examined.
For security reasons, all databases that
.Nm