From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 08:45:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA26986 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:45:23 -0700 Received: from mercury.unt.edu (mercury.unt.edu [129.120.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA26978 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:45:19 -0700 Received: from gab.unt.edu by mercury.unt.edu with SMTP id AA13553 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:44:32 -0500 Received: from GAB/SpoolDir by gab.unt.edu (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:44:45 CST6CDT Received: from SpoolDir by GAB (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 18 Jul 95 10:44:19 CST6CDT From: "John Booth" Organization: University of North Texas To: Yen-Wei Liu Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:44:12 CST6CDT Subject: Re: NIS - ypinit replacement Cc: questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I am planning to use NIS on FreeBSD 2.05R. I don't find ypinit , as > I do on other Unix machines. What command should I use to initialize > NIS database ? You should have a /var/yp directory that contains a make file. To initialize the data base on the serer, cd /var/yp;make You may need to modify the make file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- College of Arts & Sciences Computing Services John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu