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>