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This example pings the server example which is a replica of the org_dir.foo.com. directory:
nisping -H example org_dir.foo.com.
This example checkpoints all servers of the org_dir.bar.com. directory.
nisping -C org_dir.bar.com.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
NIS_PATH If this variable is set, and the NIS+ directory name is not fully qualified, each directory
specified will be searched until the directory is found.
WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is supported.
LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the industry standard naming ser-
vices based on LDAP.
AUTHOR
nisping was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO
crontab(1), nisdefaults(1), nislog(1M), nisfiles(4).
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