HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

ypmake(1M) ypmake(1M)

0 Normal termination; no problems.

1 One or more unrecognized arguments were passed.

2 The NIS domain name is not set.

3 The subdirectory used to contain maps for a speciﬁc NIS domain,

/var/yp/domain_name

does not exist or is not writable.

4 An error was encountered when building at least one of the maps.

5 One or more maps’ ASCII ﬁles do not exist or are unreadable.

EXAMPLES

Create or rebuild the password databases (both the

passwd.byname and passwd.byuid maps) from

/etc/passwd and use yppush to copy the databases to any slave NIS servers in the default NIS

domain:

ypmake passwd.byname

Create or rebuild the hosts databases from /etc/hosts

but do not copy the databases to any slave NIS

servers:

ypmake hosts NOPUSH=1

Create or rebuild the network maps from /nis/sourcefiles/networks

and copy the maps to any

slave NIS servers in NIS domain

DAE_NIS:

ypmake DOM=DAE_NIS networks DIR=/nis/sourcefiles

AUTHOR

ypmake was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

FILES

/etc/group

/etc/hosts

/etc/netgroup

/etc/networks

/etc/passwd

/etc/protocols

/etc/publickey

/etc/rpc

/etc/services