YPINIT(1M)          RISC/os Reference Manual           YPINIT(1M)



NAME
     ypinit - build and install Network Information Service data-
          base

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/etc/yp/ypinit -c

     /usr/etc/yp/ypinit -m

     /usr/etc/yp/ypinit -s master_name

DESCRIPTION
     ypinit sets up a Network Information Service database on a
     NIS server.  It can be used to set up a master or a slave
     server.  You must be the super-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 NIS system; later if you want you
     can change the association of maps to masters.  All data-
     bases are built from scratch, either from information avail-
     able to the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base
     files in /etc.  These files are listed below under FILES.
     All such files should be in their ``traditional'' form,
     rather than the abbreviated form used on client machines.

     A 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 NIS server (either the
     master server for all the maps, or a server on which the
     data base is up-to-date and stable).

     See ypfiles(4) and ypserv(1M) for an overview of the Network
     Information Service.

OPTIONS
     -c   Set up a client program

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

     -s   Set up a slave database.

FILES
     /etc/passwd
     /etc/group
     /etc/hosts
     /etc/networks
     /etc/services
     /etc/protocols
     /etc/ethers



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SEE ALSO
     makedbm(1M), ypmake(1M), yppush(1M), ypserv(1M), ypxfr(1M).
     ypfiles(4) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.

ORIGIN
     Sun Microsystems

















































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