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 subdi
rectory, 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 informa
tion 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 mas
ter_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>
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