netinfo

netinfo

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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:

 K  name  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

The -v property returns defaults to members . The -z column delimiter defaults to a comma.

Support of netinfo database maps is available only if you declare NETINFO when compiling sendmail (NETINFO).