From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 07:53:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA05101 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 07:53:42 -0800 Received: from dns.netvision.net.il (root@dns.NetVision.net.il [194.90.1.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA05095 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 07:53:27 -0800 Received: from Burka.NetVision.net.il (root@Burka.NetVision.net.il [194.90.1.15]) by dns.netvision.net.il (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA29580; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:52:24 +0200 Received: from localhost (gena@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Burka.NetVision.net.il (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA02926; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:55:19 +0200 Message-Id: <199502231555.RAA02926@Burka.NetVision.net.il> X-Authentication-Warning: Burka.NetVision.net.il: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: bmk@dtr.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NIS server on FreeBSD. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:22:47 PST." <199502231422.GAA18513@dtr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:55:18 +0200 From: Gennady Sorokopud Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I want to use a FreeBSD 2.0-SNAP-950210 machine as a YP (NIS) server. >I've never set up a NIS server before, but I'm willing to give it a >shot. I've read all of the FreeBSD and Sun NIS man pages, and have a >good idea on how to proceed. The only problem that I am facing is that >I don't have a clue what should go in the /var/yp/Makefile. > >Does anyone have a sample that they can provide? > > Yeah , install NIS on FreeBSD is really a hard job. I did it but i would stay in your position if i didn't "ported" ypinit script from Sun-OS. Is there something like SUN's ypinit on FreeBSD? If no , what is the easiest way to create NIS maps? ( /var/yp/[domainname]/[maps] ) OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O Gennady Sorokopud O O O O System programmer at NetVision Israel O O Home of Israeli Internet O O O O E-Mail: gena@netvision.net.il O O O O http: http://www.netvision.net.il/~gena/ O O Tel: home: 972-4-9931-594 Address: Sharet st. 11/13 O O work: 972-4-440-330 K. Tivon , Israel O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQBNAi43i2YAAAECANV6d3p8bQLR6Hr2tyd9f4FEUakUIbF0YOtsiil3hR/ebGRe y4EC2Y45ZS7VPiP8Pp8zyAinWEtJ/tBKBYoHdPEABRG0LEdlbm5hZHkgQi4gU29y b2tvcHVkIDxnZW5hQG5ldHZpc2lvbi5uZXQuaWw+ =bvR+ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----