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ypinit(1M) ypinit(1M)
NAME
ypinit - build and install Network Information Service databases
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/ypinit -m
[DOM=NIS_domain ]
/usr/sbin/ypinit -s
NIS_server_name [
DOM=NIS_domain ]
/usr/sbin/ypinit -c
Remarks
The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp). Although the name
has changed, the functionality of the service remains the same.
DESCRIPTION
ypinit is a shell script that creates Network Information Service (NIS) databases on either a master or
slave NIS server. ypinit asks a few self-explanatory questions, and reports success or failure to the
terminal. For an overview of Network Information Service, see ypfiles(4) and ypserv (1M).
Options
ypinit recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
-m Create the local host as the master server to all maps (databases) provided in
the NIS domain (see domainname(1)). All maps are built from scratch, either
from information provided to ypinit at run-time, or from ASCII files in
/etc. All such files should be complete and unabbreviated, unlike how they
may exist on a NIS client machine (see passwd(4) for examples of abbreviated
files).
See ypmake(1M) for more information on how NIS databases are built on the
master server. Note that
ypinit uses the NOPUSH=1 option when invoking
make, so newly formed maps are not immediately copied to slave servers (see
ypmake(1M)).
-s Create NIS databases on a slave server by copying the databases from an
existing NIS server that serves the NIS domain.
The NIS_server_name argument should be the host name of either the master
server for all the maps or a server on which the maps are current and stable.
-c Configures the local host as a NIS client, so that the NIS client will attempt to
bind to a particular NIS server. Invocation of ypinit with a -c option
prompts the user to construct a list of NIS servers, in the order of preference,
to which the client will try to bind. This list of NIS servers is stored in the file
/var/yp/binding/<domain_name>/ypservers
. In order for ypbind
to use this list of NIS servers, ypbind should not be invoked with -
broadcast option. (see ypbind(1M) in ypserv (1M)). If it is so desired that it
is not necessary for a NIS client to bind to a NIS server in a particular list, the
ypinit -c installation mechanism could be ignored.
DOM=NIS_domain Causes ypinit to construct maps for the specified NISdomain. DOM defaults
to the NIS domain shown by the domainname command (see domain-
name(1).
DIAGNOSTICS
ypinit returns exit code 0 if no errors occur; otherwise, it returns exit code 1.
AUTHOR
ypinit was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
FILES
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/netgroup
/etc/networks
/etc/passwd
/etc/protocols
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