NAME

ypmake − rebuild yellow pages database

SYNOPSIS

cd /etc/yp ; make

DESCRIPTION

There is a Makefile in /etc/yp for building the yellow pages database.  With no arguments, make creates dbm databases for everything that is out of date, and then executes yppush(8) to notify slave databases that there has been a change.

Typing make passwd will create and yppush just the password database (assuming it is out of date).  Likewise, make hosts and make networks will create and yppush the host and network files, /etc/hosts and /etc/networks.

There are three special variables: DIR, which gives the directory of the source files; NOPUSH, which when non-null inhibits doing a yppush of the new database files; and DOM, used to construct a domain other than the master’s default domain.  The default for DIR is /etc, and the default for NOPUSH is the null string.

SEE ALSO

makedbm(8), ypserv(8)

Sun Release 2.0  —  Last change: 1 February 1985