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diff --git a/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8 b/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8 index cba9879..5a403cc 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/rpc.ypxfrd/rpc.ypxfrd.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id$ +.\" $Id: rpc.ypxfrd.8,v 1.5 1997/02/22 16:13:01 peter Exp $ .\" .Dd June 2, 1996 .Dt RPC.YPXFRD 8 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ .Op Fl p Ar path .Sh DESCRIPTION The -.Nm rpc.ypxfrd +.Nm daemon is used to speed up the distribtion of very large NIS maps from NIS master to NIS slave servers. The normal method for transfering maps involves several steps: @@ -83,18 +83,18 @@ and .Pa passwd.by{name,uid} . .Pp The -.Nm rpc.ypxfrd +.Nm server speeds up the transfer process by allowing NIS slave servers to simply copy the master server's map files rather than building their own from scratch. Simply put, -.Nm rpc.ypxfrd +.Nm implements an RPC-based file transfer protocol. Transfering even a multi-megabyte file in this fashion takes only a few seconds compared to the several minutes it would take even a reasonably fast slave server to build a new map from scratch. .Pp The -.Nm rpc.ypxfrd +.Nm server uses the same access restriction mechanism as .Xr ypserv 8 . This means that slave servers will only be permitted to transfer @@ -105,9 +105,8 @@ ports will be allowed to transfer the .Pa master.passwd maps. .Sh OPTIONS -The following options and flags are supported by -.Nm rpc.ypxfrd : -.Bl -tag -width flag +The following option is available: +.Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl p Ar path This option can be used to override the default path to the location of the NIS @@ -125,15 +124,17 @@ The NIS maps for a particular NIS domain. .Xr ypserv 8 , .Xr ypxfr 8 .Sh BUGS -The FreeBSD +The +.Bx Free .Nm ypxfrd protocol is not compatible with that used by SunOS. This is unfortunate but unavoidable: Sun's protocol is not freely available, and even if it were it would probably not be useful since the SunOS NIS v2 implementation -uses the original ndbm package for its map databases whereas the FreeBSD +uses the original ndbm package for its map databases whereas the +.Bx Free implementation uses Berkeley DB. These two packages use vastly different file formats. Furthermore, ndbm is byte-order sensitive and not very smart about it, meaning that am ndbm database created on a big endian system can't be read on a little endian system. .Sh AUTHOR -Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> +.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu |
