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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 07:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net>
To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>
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Subject: Re: NIS
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> 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!

There is a makefile to run make on in the /var/yp dir (I could be wrong
in the dir).  That should make the maps.  For me it it complains about
not knowing stuff and dies.  I am still trying to figure it out.

Stefan

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