''netinfo'' '''

netinfo

NeXT, Darwin, & Mac OS X NetInfo

V8.7 and above

NetInfo is NeXT's implementation of a network-based information service. It has also been adopted by the Darwin and Mac OS X operating systems. The netinfo type expects a database-map declaration to be of the following form:

Kname netinfo  database-map

The database-map name defaults to /aliases.

The netinfo type uses only a handful of database switches, as shown in Table 23-18.

Table 23-18. The netinfo database-map type K command switches
Switch	§	Description
`-a`	-a	Append tag on successful match
`-D`	-D	Don't use this database map if DeliveryMode=defer
`-k`	-k	Specify column for key or key name
`-m`	-m	Suppress replacement on match
`-q`	-q	Don't strip quotes from key
`-S`	-S	Space replacement character
`-T`	-T	Suffix to append on temporary failure
`-t`	-t	Ignore temporary errors
`-v`	-v	Specify the value's column
`-z`	-z	Specify the column delimiter