nicknames
Section: File Formats (5)Updated: May 1999
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NAME
/var/yp/nicknames - nickname translation table for NIS mapsDESCRIPTION
nicknames contains a list of aliases and the corresponding NIS maps. There is one entry per line. The default nicknames table looks like:-
- passwd
- passwd.byname
- group
- group.byname
- networks
- networks.byaddr
- hosts
- hosts.byname
- protocols
- protocols.bynumber
- services
- services.byname
- aliases
- mail.aliases
- ethers
- ethers.byname
SEE ALSO
ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypwhich(1)AUTHOR
The yp-tools package was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.
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