Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 04:15:36 -0700 (PDT) From: nick.hibma@jrc.it To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/7679: NIS man pages are incomplete Message-ID: <199808191115.EAA26254@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 7679
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: NIS man pages are incomplete
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 19 04:20:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nick Hibma
>Organization:
Joint Research Centre
>Release: 2.2.5/2.2.6
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
The manpages of the NIS server ypserv could be more complete wqith respect to the installation of the server
Especially that remark about the copying of files should be mentioned
somewhere in the manpages because it is non-trivial.
The section below could be added (after spell checking and man-ification)
just before the NOTES section or as the first entry in the NOTES section.
>How-To-Repeat:
man ypserv
>Fix:
INSTALLATION
Master Server
Create a directory <domainname>, like 'foo.bar' in the directory
specified as the path, normally /var/yp. Specify in the 'all'
rule in the Makefile in /var/yp the files you want to be handled
by ypserv. Perform a 'make' to see which files it cannot yet
find. Create these files in the directory 'foo.bar' and type
make again to see which other files it misses.
Create a file securenets as described below.
Then start the ypserver up with the command 'ypserv'. Set the
domainname with 'domainname foo.bar'. You should now be able to
bind to this domain by executing the command
'ypbind -S foo.bar,<servername>'. To see the server you are
bound to use the command ypwhich.
Do a make again in the directory /var/yp to push the files to
the local NIS server.
Slave server
Create a directory '/var/yp/<domainname>' and copy by hand the
files from the same directory on the master server. This is
necessary to get the initial maps there.
Start the NIS server with the command 'ypserv'. Add the name
of the slave server to the list of NIS servers in the file
/var/yp/ypservers and do a make in the directory /var/yp on the
master server. This should produce an updated version of the database
in the /var/yp/foo.bar directory on the slave.
...
SEE ALSO
...
vipw(8)
aliases(5)
bootparams(5)
ethers(5)
netgroup(5)
networks(5)
hosts(5)
protocols(5)
rpc(5)
services(5)
group(5)
ypservers
amd(8)
mknetid(8)
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