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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:58:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Edwin de Graaf <graaf@joy.IAEhv.nl>
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Subject: Re: NIS
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970727233431.4404A-100000@lightning.tbe.net> you write:
>Hello,
>
>We are trying to set up NIS here, and we already have the ORA Managing NFS
>and NIS book.  The problem(?) is that in the book, it says to use ypinit
>to build the maps and such...we have searched the system, and all
>documentation we can find and haven't seen anything about ypinit on a
>FreeBSD system.  Is there ypinit, or does one of the other yp-functions
>such as ypserve or ypmkdb take over this function.  Any help would be much
>appreciated.  TIA!

Hello Gary,

If I remember correctly the NIS maps are created if you run a make
in /var/yp. You may have to edit the Makefile in that directory to set the
place where you keep the master.passwd file.

Kind regards,
Edwin