Mac OS X defaults Notes

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This page shows a quick description of how to mass unload & load the machines & mounts attributes of the Netinfo database using the command line. Here I use the nidump & niload utilities, but the defaults & niutil utilities maybe usable too.

The following images display what some of these values look like in Netinfo.

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To unload in the XML Apple format and reload do the following

sudo nidump -r /machines . > ni-machines

cat ni-machines

{
  "name" = ( "machines" );
  CHILDREN = (
    {
      "name" = ( "localhost" );
      "ip_address" = ( "127.0.0.1" );
      "serves" = ( "./local" );
    },
    {
      "name" = ( "broadcasthost" );
      "ip_address" = ( "255.255.255.255" );
      "serves" = ( "../network" );
    },
    {
      "ip_address" = ( "10.1.0.4" );
      "name" = ( "crux" );
    },
    {
      "ip_address" = ( "10.1.0.10" );
      "name" = ( "max" );
    }
  )
}

sudo niload -r /machines . < ni-machines

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To unload and load the NFS mount points in XML Apple format do the following:

sudo nidump -r /mounts . > ni-nfs-mounts

cat ni-nfs-mounts

{
  "name" = ( "mounts" );
  CHILDREN = (
    {
      "name" = ( "crux:/Users" );
      "opts" = ( "soft", "net", "timeo=6", "-P" );
      "dir" = ( "/Network/Servers" );
    },
    {
      "name" = ( "crux:/Downloads" );
      "opts" = ( "soft", "net", "timeo=6", "-P" );
      "dir" = ( "/Network/Servers" );
    }
  )
}

sudo niload -r /mounts . < ni-nfs-mounts