Date: 28 Jul 1997 13:00:05 -0700 From: Faried Nawaz <fn@Hungry.COM> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <lwafj7t0ai.fsf@terror.hungry.com> In-Reply-To: gary@tbe.net's message of 27 Jul 1997 21:06:43 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970727233431.4404A-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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gary@tbe.net (Gary D. Margiotta) writes: 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! Are you setting up a master NIS server, or a slave? For a master, you need to copy /var/yp/Makefile.dist to /var/yp/Makefile and edit it, and then run 'make'. That's the least work you have to do For a slave, the only way I know of transferring maps over is by running ypxfr manually for the NIS db files that can be found in the NIS master's /var/yp/<domainname>, and then starting ypserv. After the initial transfer, yppush on the master takes care of everything.
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