ypxfrd(8) — Maintenance
NAME
ypxfrd − high speed NIS map transfer daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/ypxfrd
DESCRIPTION
The ypxfrd daemon is the transfer agent that handles map transfer requests from yppush on the master server and ypxfr on slave servers and clients. This program performs the actual transfer of the NIS maps to slave servers and clients. This daemon is activated at system startup time by an entry in the /sbin/init.d/nis file of an NIS master server machine.
See ypfiles(4) and ypserv(8) for an overview of NIS.