Formerly Netinfo as I recall, now the local component of Open Directory / directory services. Database files are in /var/db/dslocal and are binary plists, except for an sqlite3 index file and a couple of files associated with it. _Looking_ at those directly (I wouldn’t modify anything directly without a backup!! Either GUI or the dscl command should be used to make changes) is reasonably straightforward, knowing their formats - just leave those alone those two files that “file” identifies only as “data”.
/etc/hosts and NIS can be enabled (typically together, as I recall). Mixing master/slave NIS server is NOT compatible with Sun’s NIS (protocol differences? certainly different underlying data storage limitations, i.e. old dbm vs gdbm or db or whatever); but _clients_ need not be same OS as servers. On Jan 4, 2015, at 11:20 AM, William H. Magill <mag...@mac.com> wrote: > >> On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:34 AM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sunday January 04 2015 09:05:42 Brandon Allbery wrote: >> >>> From the standpoint of DNS, "localhost" is fully qualified: it is not the >>> short form of a name that is meaningful only in the context of a particular >>> domain. >> >> AFAIK you need an entry in /etc/hosts in order for "localhost" to be >> defined, no? >> >> BIND9 at least comes with a local zone definition that includes "localhost." >> as a name, with the usual mapping. That said, people *usually* get it from >> /etc/hosts... *but* OS X is a little weird in how/when it uses the hosts >> file. > > If one believes the contents of /etc/hosts -- OSX only consults it at boot > time. > > Historically, OSX loaded all of the various "unix like" plain-text > information files into a database. > (NIS maybe?) > I haven't played extensively with this sort of stuff since I retired back in > 2003, (Apple makes it so easy to forget) but I assume that OSX (NeXTStep) > has not "gotten closer" to UNIX(tm), but continued on its divergent path. > > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > > mag...@icloud.com > mag...@mac.com > whmag...@gmail.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
