ypinit(1M)                                                ypinit(1M)


       NAME
             ypinit - build and install NIS database

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

       DESCRIPTION
             The ypinit command sets up the Network Information Service
             (NIS) on a server or a client.

          Files
             /var/yp/binding/domainname/ypservers

       USAGE
             ypinit can be used to set up an NIS master server, an NIS
             slave server, or an NIS client.  To run ypinit, you must be
             the NIS administrator root with the appropriate privileges.
             It asks a few self-explanatory  questions, and reports success
             or failure to the terminal.

             ypinit 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 NIS 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.

             An NIS 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 NIS 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 NIS servers
             to bind the client to, this list should be ordered from
             closest to farthest server.

             Refer to ypfiles(4) and ypserv(1M) for an overview of the NIS
             service.



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      ypinit(1M)                                                ypinit(1M)


         Options
            ypinit takes the following options:

            -c              Set up a client system.

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

            -s master-name  Set up a slave database.

      REFERENCES
            makedbm(1M), ypbuild(1M), yppush(1M), ypserv(1M), ypxfr(1M),
            ypfiles(4)



































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