NAME
hesinfo - find out what is stored in the Hesiod database SYNOPSIS
hesinfo [-bl] HesiodName HesiodNameType DESCRIPTION hesinfo takes two arguments, a name to be resolved and a string, known as a HesiodNameType. It then prints the information returned by the Hesiod nameserver. The value returned by hesinfo is of the type HesiodNameType. hesinfo understands the following options:
-l Selects long format.
-b Prints the fully-qualified string passed to the nameserver. VALID HesiodNames The following types of identifiers may be used in the HesiodName argu‐ ment to hesinfo. These values will be resolved by accessing the hesiod database.
the 8-character-or-less string used to identify users or classes (e.g. joeuser, root, 1.00, etc). Used with the Hes‐ iodNameTypes passwd, pobox, and filsys.
the id number assigned to a user. the id number assigned to a group. a name identifying a unique group.
the name of an athena file system. : the name of an rvd's server and pack seperated by a colon. : the name of an nfs server and its partition seperated by a colon.
the machine name of an Athena workstation (e.g. E40-343-3).
name of an Athena service (e.g. Zephyr).
name of Unix service (valid entries are defined in /etc/ser‐ vices).
name of a printer.
name of an Athena print cluster. some hesinfo calls (e.g. prclusterlist ) do not require a spe‐ cific HesiodName argument. However, you must include a dummy string (e.g. 'foo') for hesinfo to work properly. VALID HesiodNameTypes The following symbols are valid substitutions for the HesiodNameType argument to hesinfo. passwd returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/passwd, searching with . pobox returns information on the pobox assigned to the user specified by HesiodName, searching with . uid returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/passwd, searching with . gid returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/group, searching with . group returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/group, searching with . grplist returns subgroups included in superset defined by . filsys returns file system type, export point, server, mount mode, and import point for the following valid HesiodNames (see above) -
, , : , and : cluster returns information about the local cluster the workstation, specified by . Included is information about the local file and print servers. This information is accesses by clusterinfo at boot time. sloc returns network name of service host for
. service returns Internet protocol type and protocol service port for
. pcap returns a valid entry for /etc/printcap for
. prcluserlist returns a list of print clusters. prcluster returns a list of printers in a cluster specified by
cluster-name>. FILES /etc/athena/hesiod.conf SEE ALSO
`Hesiod - Project Athena Technical Plan Name Service', named(8), hesiod(3) AUTHOR Steve Dyer, IBM/Project Athena Copyright 1987, 1988, 1996 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technol‐ ogy. 27 October 1996 HESINFO(1)