Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:18:29 +0200 From: Andres Vega Garcia <Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr> To: mbarkah@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to set up nis/yp on 2.0-R ? Message-ID: <199504101718.TAA09912@tic.inria.fr> In-Reply-To: your message of Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:14:21 MDT.
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: mbarkah@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah) wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to set up yp between 2 FreeBSD 2.0-R machines. >Reading the man pages it mentions /var/yp/Makefile as a >configuration file, but I can't find it anywhere. The >man pages also mention stuff being started in netstart >and rc.local, but I can't find any yp stuff in those >places either. > >Any ideas ? Thanks in advance, > >-Ade Barkah This is what I use (and it works) in my rc.local : ------------------------------- .... # Kerberos runs ONLY on the Kerberos server machine if [ X${kerberos_server} = X"YES" ]; then echo -n ' kerberos'; kerberos >> /var/log/kerberos.log & fi # For loading fonts/keyboard example look in /usr/share/examples/syscons # directory domainname `cat /etc/defaultdomain` ypserver='the servers IP address' # the_server_name domain=`domainname` if [ "$domain" -a -d /var/yp ]; then echo "NIS domain is $domain." echo -n 'starting NIS service:' ypbind; echo -n ' ypbind' fi ----------------------------------------- Recapitulating: 1) create and empty /var/yp directory, and the file /etc/defaultdomain 2) uncomment the line with 'nis' in /etc/host.conf 3) assign your ypserver IP addres (rc.local) 4) execute ypbind (rc.local) Ah!, do name_server=YES in /etc/netstart Andres ------------------------------ INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France avega@pax.inria.fr
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