SERVICES_MKDB(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SERVICES_MKDB(8)NAMEservices_mkdb — generate the services databases
SYNOPSISservices_mkdb [-qv] [-o database] [-V style] [file]
services_mkdb-u [file]
DESCRIPTIONservices_mkdb creates a db(3) database for the specified file. If no
file is specified, then /etc/services is used. The database is installed
into /var/db/services.cdb for CDB format and into /var/db/services.db for
DB format (see -V). The file must be in the correct format (see
services(5)).
The options are as follows:
-o database
Put the output databases in the named file.
-q Don't warn about duplicate services. This is the default behav‐
ior.
-u Print the services file to stdout, omitting duplicate entries and
comments.
-V Create a specific version of the database style. style can be
cdb to request the CDB format (default) or db to request the DB
format. The DB format is useful for compatibility with old stat‐
ically linked binaries.
-v Warn about duplicate services.
The databases are used by the C library services routines (see
getservent(3)).
services_mkdb exits zero on success, non-zero on failure.
FILES
/var/db/services.db The current services database.
/var/db/services.db.tmp A temporary file.
/etc/services The current services file.
SEE ALSOdb(3), getservent(3), services(5)BUGS
Because services_mkdb guarantees not to install a partial destination
file it must build a temporary file in the same file system and if suc‐
cessful use rename(2) to install over the destination file.
If services_mkdb fails it will leave the previous version of the destina‐
tion file intact.
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