ypinit(8)

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)

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