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YPINIT(8)		     NIS Reference Manual		     YPINIT(8)

NAME
       ypinit - NIS database install and build program

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/yp/ypinit [-m] [-s master_name]

DESCRIPTION
       ypinit builds the domain subdirectory of /var/yp for the current
       default domain. After building the domain subdirectory, ypinit builds a
       complete set of administrative maps for your system and places them in
       this directory. The first map created by ypinit -m is the ypservers
       map. You should run it as root on the hosts, which should be the master
       ypserver.You should have only one master server per NIS domain.

       All databases are built from scratch, either from information available
       to the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base files in /etc.
       These files are listed below under FILES.

       An NIS database on a slave server is set up by copying an existing
       database from a running server. The master_name argument should be the
       hostname of an NIS server (either the master server for all the maps,
       or a server on which the data base is up-to-date and stable).

OPTIONS
       -m
	   If the local host is the NIS master.

       -s
	   Set up a slave server with the database from master_name

FILES
       /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, /etc/services,
       /etc/protocols, /etc/netgroup, /etc/rpc

SEE ALSO
       makedbm(8), revnetgroup(8), yppush(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

BUGS
       There is no good error handling at the moment.

AUTHOR
       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>

NIS Reference Manual		  04/02/2009			     YPINIT(8)

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