ypinit(1M)                       UNIX System V                       ypinit(1M)


NAME
      ypinit - build and install YP database

SYNOPSIS
      /usr/sbin/ypinit -c
      /usr/sbin/ypinit -m
      /usr/sbin/ypinit -s master-name

DESCRIPTION
      ypinit sets up a YP name service database on a YP server.  It can be used
      to set up a master or a slave server, or a client system.  You must be
      the privileged user to run it.  It asks a few self-explanatory
      questions, 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.

      All databases are built from scratch, either from information available
      to the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base files in /etc.
      These files should be in their traditional form, rather than the
      abbreviated form used on client machines.

      A YP database on a slave server is set up by copying an existing database
      from a running server. The master-name argument should be the hostname of
      a YP server (either the master server for all the maps, or a server on
      which the data base is up-to-date and stable).

      To set up a client, ypinit prompts for a list of YP servers to bind the
      client to, this list should be ordered from closest to farthest server.

      Read ypfiles(4) and ypserv(1M) for an overview of the YP name service.

      The following options are available:

      -c              Set up a client system.

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

      -s master-name  Set up a slave database.

SEE ALSO
      makedbm(1M), ypmake(1M), yppush(1M), ypserv(1M), ypxfr(1M), ypfiles(4)

FILES
      /var/yp/binding/domainname/ypservers







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