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NETGROUP_MKDB(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual NETGROUP_MKDB(8) NAME netgroup_mkdb - generate the netgroup database SYNOPSIS netgroup_mkdb [-o database] [file] DESCRIPTION netgroup_mkdb creates a db(3) database for the specified file. If no file is specified, then /etc/netgroup is used. This database is installed into /var/db/netgroup.db. The file must be in the correct format (see netgroup(5)). The options are as follows: -o database Put the output databases in the named file. The databases are used by the C library netgroup routines (see getnetgrent(3)). netgroup_mkdb exits zero on success, non-zero on failure. FILES /var/db/netgroup.db The current netgroup database /var/db/netgroup.db.tmp A temporary file /etc/netgroup The current netgroup file SEE ALSO db(3), getnetgrent(3), netgroup(5) BUGS Because netgroup_mkdb guarantees not to install a partial destination file it must build a temporary file in the same file system and if successful use rename(2) to install over the destination file. If netgroup_mkdb fails it will leave the previous version of the destination file intact. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 May 20, 2007 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8