From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 11:38: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CF937B511 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 11:38:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA22955; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:37:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 14:37:57 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Sam Carleton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up NIS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000507143757.A22542@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <39149253.4A7233F4@activex-dev.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39149253.4A7233F4@activex-dev.com>; from scarleton@activex-dev.com on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:45:10PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:45:10PM -0400, Sam Carleton wrote: > I have the O'Reilly book on NIS/NFS, but is there some documentation on > NIS for FreeBSD? If so, where about do I go looking for this > documentation? man nis I remember someone had a web page about setting it up. Look in the mail archives. Are you setting up a client or server? Setting up a client is ridiculously easy, 'man ypbind', then set the variables in rc.conf appropriately. A server is quite a bit more fun. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message