HESINFO(1)

🌸 HESINFO(1) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for hesinfo 💖 this is the one that tells you what's actually chillin' inside the Hesiod database, and honestly? she's an icon, she's a legend, and she's about to be your new fave 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

hesinfo — find out what is stored in the Hesiod database 🔍🦋

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

hesinfo [-bl] HesiodName HesiodNameType

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so hesinfo takes two arguments, no more no less:

1. a name to be resolved (HesiodName) 🎀
2. a string known as a HesiodNameType ✨

and then she prints the information returned by the Hesiod nameserver. that's it, that's the job. periodt 💅

the value returned by hesinfo is of the type HesiodNameType. yes, that's literally what the manpage says, and yes, it's giving recursive but we move 🫶

hesinfo understands the following options:

• -l — selects long format. lowkey the glow-up version of the output 💖
• -b — prints the fully-qualified string passed to the nameserver. like, the full government name, no nicknames 🎀

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🧚 VALID Hesiod_Names 🧚

these are the types of identifiers you can drop into the HesiodName argument. all of them get resolved by accessing the hesiod database, no cap 🗄️✨

• <username> — the 8-character-or-less</s> string used to identify users or classes (e.g. joeuser, root, 1.00, etc). used with the Hesiod_Name_Types passwd, pobox, and filsys. short king energy fr fr 👑
• <uid> — the id number assigned to a user 🔢
• <groupid> — the id number assigned to a group 🔢
• <groupname> — a name identifying a unique group 🫂
• <file-system-name> — the name of an athena file system 📁
• <rvd server>:<pack> — the name of an rvd's server and pack, separated by a colon : (yes the colon is mandatory, don't forget her) 🩷
• <nfs server>:<partition> — the name of an nfs server and its partition, separated by a colon : 🌐
• <workstation-name> — the machine name of an Athena workstation (e.g. E40-343-3) 🖥️
• <service-name> — name of an Athena service (e.g. Zephyr) ⚡
• <service-type> — name of Unix service (valid entries are defined in /etc/services) 🐧
• <printer-name> — name of a printer 🖨️
• <printer-cluster-name> — name of an Athena print cluster 🖨️✨
• <foo> — some hesinfo calls (e.g. prclusterlist) do not require a specific HesiodName argument. BUT ⚠️ you must still include a dummy string (e.g. 'foo') for hesinfo to work properly. yes bestie, she needs enrichment, she needs a lil placeholder, just give her the foo 😭🙈

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🌟 VALID Hesiod_Name_Types 🌟

these are the valid substitutions for the HesiodNameType argument. here's the whole squad, all thirteen of them, no skips 💜

• passwd — returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/passwd, searching with <username> 📜
• pobox — returns information on the pobox assigned to the user specified by HesiodName, searching with <username> 📬
• uid — returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/passwd, searching with <uid> 📜
• gid — returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/group, searching with <groupid> 📜
• group — returns string suitable for inclusion in /etc/group, searching with <groupname> 📜
• grplist — returns subgroups included in superset defined by <groupname> 🫂
• filsys — returns file system type, export point, server, mount mode, and import point for the following valid HesiodNames (see above) — <file system name>, <username>, <rvd server>:<pack>, and <nfs server>:<partition> 🗂️
• cluster — returns information about the local cluster of the workstation, specified by <workstation name>. included is information about the local file and print servers. this information is accessed by clusterinfo at boot time 🖥️🌸
• sloc — returns network name of service host for <service-name> 🌐
• service — returns Internet protocol type and protocol service port for <service-type> 🔌
• pcap — returns a valid entry for /etc/printcap for <printer-name> 🖨️
• prcluserlist — returns a list of print clusters 📋 (and yes, that spelling is exactly how she's written, we don't correct her, we respect her 🫶)
• prcluster — returns a list of printers in a cluster specified by <printer-cluster-name> 🖨️✨

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📂 FILES 📂

• /etc/athena/hesiod.conf — the config file in question, the whole vibe lives here 🎀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Hesiod - Project Athena Technical Plan -- Name Service
• named(8)
• hesiod(3)

iykyk, go read those next bestie 💖

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

• Steve Dyer, IBM/Project Athena 🫶
• Copyright 1987, 1988, 1996 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 📝

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this beauty is dated 27 October 1996 and lives under the HESINFO(1) name in the General Commands Manual 💅 slay, mwah 🎀✨🦋