bionic (8) ypinit.8.gz

Provided by: nis_3.17.1-1build1_amd64 bug

NAME

       ypinit - NIS database install and build program

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/yp/ypinit [ -m ] [ -s master_name ]

DESCRIPTION

       ypinit  builds  the  domain  subdirectory  of  /var/yp for the current default domain. After building the
       domain subdirectory, ypinit builds a complete set of administrative maps for your system and places  them
       in  this directory. The first map created by ypinit -m is the ypservers map. You should run it as root on
       the hosts, which should be the master ypserver.  You should have only one master server per NIS domain.

       All databases are built from scratch, either from information available to the  program  at  runtime,  or
       from the ASCII data base files in /etc.  These files are listed below under FILES.

       An  NIS  database on a slave server is set up by copying an existing database from a running server.  The
       master_name argument should be the hostname of an NIS server (either the master server for all the  maps,
       or a server on which the data base is up-to-date and stable).

OPTIONS

       -m     If the local host is the NIS master.

       -s     Set up a slave server with the database from master_name

FILES

       /etc/passwd
       /etc/group
       /etc/hosts
       /etc/networks
       /etc/services
       /etc/protocols
       /etc/netgroup
       /etc/rpc

SEE ALSO

       makedbm(8), revnetgroup(8), yppush(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

BUGS

       There isn't a good error handling at the moment.

AUTHOR

       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

                                                   August 1996                                         ypinit(8)