ypinit(8)

1ypinit(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  ypinit(8)
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NAME

6       ypinit - NIS database install and build program
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SYNOPSIS

9       /usr/lib64/yp/ypinit [ -m ] [ -s master_name ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       ypinit  builds  the  domain  subdirectory  of  /var/yp  for the current
13       default domain. After building the domain subdirectory, ypinit builds a
14       complete  set of administrative maps for your system and places them in
15       this directory. The first map created by ypinit  -m  is  the  ypservers
16       map. You should run it as root on the hosts, which should be the master
17       ypserver.  You should have only one master server per NIS domain.
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19       All databases are built from scratch, either from information available
20       to  the  program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base files in /etc.
21       These files are listed below under FILES.
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23       An NIS database on a slave server is set  up  by  copying  an  existing
24       database from a running server.  The master_name argument should be the
25       hostname of an NIS server (either the master server for all  the  maps,
26       or a server on which the data base is up-to-date and stable).
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OPTIONS

29       -m     If the local host is the NIS master.
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31       -s     Set up a slave server with the database from master_name
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FILES

34       /etc/passwd
35       /etc/group
36       /etc/hosts
37       /etc/networks
38       /etc/services
39       /etc/protocols
40       /etc/netgroup
41       /etc/rpc
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BUGS

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

50       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
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54                                  August 1996                        ypinit(8)