ypinit(1M)                                             ypinit(1M)



     NAME
          ypinit - build and install yellow pages database

     SYNOPSIS
          ypinit -m
          ypinit -s master_name

     DESCRIPTION
          ypinit sets up a yellow pages (YP) server's database.  It
          can be used to set up a master server or a slave server.
          You must be the superuser to run it.  It asks a few
          questions, which are self-explanatory, and reports success
          or failure to the terminal.

          It sets up a master server using the simple model in which
          that server is master to all maps in the data base.  This is
          the way to bootstrap the YP system; later if you want you
          can change the association of maps to masters by changing
          the information in the YP map named ypmaps.  All databases
          are built from scratch, either from information available to
          the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base files in
          /etc.  The list of which files will be used to generate the
          databases is below in the FILES section.  All of these files
          should be in their traditional form, rather than the
          abbreviated form used on client machines, which primarily
          use the YP services to access the same information.

          A slave YP server database is set up by copying an existing
          database from a running server.  The master_name argument
          should be the host name of YP server, which is either
          actually the master server for all the maps, or a server the
          data base of which is believed to be up-to-date and stable.
          If your network uses different server machines acting as the
          master of different maps, of course no single machine will
          be the master of all maps.  This doesn't matter; the yp data
          bases will converge automatically in time, and the process
          can be sped up somewhat by using yppush(1M) and yppull(1M).
          Just choose a YP server which is up, reachable, and stable.

     OPTIONS
          -m   Indicates that the local host is to be the YP master.

          -s   Set up a slave database.

     FILES
          /etc/yp/ypinit
          /etc/passwd
          /etc/group
          /etc/hosts
          /etc/networks
          /etc/services
          /etc/protocols



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          /etc/netgroup

     SEE ALSO
          makedbm(1M), ypfiles(1M), yppush(1M), ypmake(1M).



















































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