HP-UX Internet Services Administrator's Guide (August 2003)

Installing and Configuring Internet Services
Configuring the Internet Services Software
Chapter 226
Configuring the Internet Services Software
This chapter describes how to configure the Internet Services software
on your system. It discusses the following topics:
• “Configuring the Name Service Switch” on page 26
• “Configuring an Internet Address” on page 29
• “Configuring inetd” on page 35
• “Configuring Logging” on page 37
Configuring the Name Service Switch
The name service switch determines where your system will search for
information stored in the following files:
• /etc/mail/aliases
• AutoFS maps (like /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_home)
• /etc/group
• /etc/hosts
• /etc/netgroup
• /etc/networks
• /etc/passwd
• /etc/protocols
• /etc/publickey
• /etc/rpc
• /etc/services
For all types of information except host information, you can configure
your system to use NIS (one of the NFS services), NIS+ (the next
generation of NIS), or the local /etc file, in any order.