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OSXFAQ Mac OS X UNIX Tip-of-the-Day   back to index

Week 79 - NetInfo (28 June 2004)

by Adrian Mayo - Editor, OSXFAQ

Friday - Override Lookup Order

In Panther, most of the Unix flat files are searched, as well as NetInfo and Directory Services.

Check this search order for services with:

$ lookupd -configuration

Change this for any service by creating a file in directory '/etc/lookupd/'. For example, to control how NFS mounts are searched for (by default NetInfo but not the /etc/fstab 'flat file') create a file called mounts:

$ cat /etc/lookupd/mounts
LookupOrder Cache FF NI DS

This says to search the Flat Files, then NetInfo, then Directory Services.


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