Network Information Service (NIS) B.11.31.04 Administrator's Guide

Figure 1-3 Servers Serving Multiple NIS Domains
Startup Scripts in NIS Services
This section discusses the startup sequence for the NIS daemons during a normal system
boot.
Following are the NIS startup scripts:
• /sbin/init.d/nis.server
• /sbin/init.d/nis.client
These scripts can be used to start and stop NIS on a system. As part of startup, they
read the /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs file to determine the daemons that must be
started, and detect whether the system is a server or a client.
The nis.server script is executed at system run level 2 on NIS master and slave
servers. This script performs the following tasks for NIS master server:
• Starts yppasswdd if it is not already running.
• Starts ypupdated if it is not already running.
• Starts keyserv if it is not already running.
The nis.server script performs the following tasks for NIS master and slave servers:
• Starts rpcbind if it is not already running.
• Sets the domainname.
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