/[radius]/radius/doc/man/builddbm.8.man
ViewVC logotype

Diff of /radius/doc/man/builddbm.8.man

Parent Directory Parent Directory | Revision Log Revision Log | View Patch Patch

revision 1.5 by gray, Thu Dec 13 13:42:36 2001 UTC revision 1.6 by gray, Thu Oct 16 15:18:43 2003 UTC
# Line 11  builddbm - build a DBM version of Radius Line 11  builddbm - build a DBM version of Radius
11  \fBbuilddbm\fR  \fBbuilddbm\fR
12  \fB-h\fR  \fB-h\fR
13  .SH DESCRIPTION  .SH DESCRIPTION
14  \fBBuilddbm\fR converts the plaintext \fBRadius\fR users database into  .De builddbm
 DBM files. Some versions of \fBRadius\fR daemon have used this to  
 speed up the access to the users database.  
 .PP  
 However in this implementation of \fBRadius\fR daemon things go the  
 other way around. The server reads entire plaintext database, converts  
 it into internal form and stores into hash table which provides for  
 fast access. Actually, using DBM version of the users database slows  
 down the access unless the machine which runs \fBRadius\fR daemon is  
 short of address space for the daemon to store the users database into.  
 .PP  
 Optionally, \fBRadius\fR daemon can use both plaintext and DBM  
 databases, in which case it first looks up the user in the former, and  
 if not found, continues search in the latter.  
 .SH OPERATION  
 When used without arguments, \fBbuilddbm\fR utility attempts to  
 convert file \fB\*(RD/users\fR into \fB\*(RD/users.db\fR or  
 \fB\*(RD/users.pag, \*(RD/users.dir\fR pair depending on the  
 version of DBM library used.  
 .PP  
 If used with one argument, the argument is taken as the name of the  
 plaintext database file to operate upon.  
 .SH OPTIONS  
 .IP -d  
 Specifies alternate directory for the \fBRadius\fR users database  
 files. This defaults to \*(RD.  
 .SH FILES  
 .IP \*(RD/users  
 Default plaintext database.  
 .IP \*(RD/users.db  
 Default output file.  
 .SH BUGS  
 The information in this manpage may be obsolete or incomplete. Please  
 refer to texinfo documentation for full information about GNU Radius  
 tools.  
15  .SH AUTHORS  .SH AUTHORS
16  \*(AU  \*(AU
17    
 .SH SEE ALSO  
 users(5rad), radiusd(8rad), config(5rad)  
   
   

Legend:
Removed from v.1.5  
changed lines
  Added in v.1.6

savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org
ViewVC Help
Powered by ViewVC 1.1.26