Description of problem: The manual page for getent doesn't list the ahosts database. More databases might be missing. Steps to Reproduce: 1. man getent | grep -C 1 ethers Actual results: database using the specified search keys. Where database is one of aliases, ethers, group, hosts, netgroup, networks, passwd, protocols, rpc, services or shadow. Expected results: Complete list of databases, including ahosts, in particular.
The getent man page is not part of glibc. And getent --help lists all databases.
Fixed in man-pages-2.63-2.