1ypset(8) System Manager's Manual ypset(8)
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6 ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server
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9 ypset [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] server
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12 In order to run ypset, ypbind must be initiated with the -ypset or
13 -ypsetme options. See ypbind(8). ypset tells ypbind to get NIS ser‐
14 vices for the specified domain from the ypserv(8) process running on
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16 In cases where several hosts on the local net are supplying NIS ser‐
18 vices, it is possible for ypbind to rebind to another host even while
19 you attempt to find out if the ypset operation succeeded. For example,
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21 example% ypset host1
23 example% ypwhich
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25 which can be confusing. This is a function of the NIS subsys‐
26 tem's attempt to know always a running NIS server, and occurs
27 when host1 does not respond to ypbind because it is not running
28 ypserv (or is overloaded), and host2, running ypserv, gets the
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30 Server indicates the NIS server to bind to, and must be speci‐
31 fied as a name or an IP address. This will work only if the node
32 has a current valid binding for the domain in question, and
33 ypbind has been set to allow use of ypset. In most cases,
34 server should be specified as an IP address.
36 -d domain
37 Specify a domain other than the default domain as
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39 -h hostname
40 Set the NIS binding on host hostname
41 instead of the local machine.
43 domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8),
44 yppoll(8), ypwhich(1)
46 ypset is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by
47 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.
48YP Tools 2.9 May 1998 ypset(8)