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 is no good error handling at the moment.

AUTHOR

       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>