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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-02 23:13:00 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-02 23:13:00 +0000 |
commit | 6294018a208cf7742b1c021a9b75c26962505571 (patch) | |
tree | 502f17eb951b74c914af346cd4dbff252350c082 /usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb | |
parent | 3f44360851448f8816c22f6b72e8dd5c9924c27f (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-6294018a208cf7742b1c021a9b75c26962505571.zip FreeBSD-src-6294018a208cf7742b1c021a9b75c26962505571.tar.gz |
Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 b/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 index e3dc642..9d47412 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 @@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ change, add, or remove any files. .It Fl N Tell .Nm -to exit with an error if it cannot obtain a lock on the file. By default, -we block waiting for a lock on the source file. The lock is held through +to exit with an error if it cannot obtain a lock on the file. +By default, +we block waiting for a lock on the source file. +The lock is held through the rebuilding of the database. .It Fl p Create a Version 7 style password file and install it into @@ -84,17 +86,20 @@ Create a Version 7 style password file and install it into Store databases into specified destination directory instead of .Pa /etc . .It Fl u Ar username -Only update the record for the specified user. Utilities that +Only update the record for the specified user. +Utilities that operate on a single user can use this option to avoid the overhead of rebuilding the entire database. .It Fl s Ar cachesize Specify in megabytes the size of the memory cache used by the -hashing library. On systems with a large user base, a small cache +hashing library. +On systems with a large user base, a small cache size can lead to prohibitively long database file rebuild times. As a rough guide, the memory usage of .Nm in megabytes will be a little bit more than twice the figure -specified here. The default is 2 megabytes. +specified here. +The default is 2 megabytes. .El .Pp The two databases differ in that the secure version contains the user's |