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ypinit(8)						      System Manager's 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 isn't a good error handling at the moment.

AUTHOR

       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

								    August 1996 							 ypinit(8)

YPINIT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 YPINIT(8)

NAME

     ypinit -- build and install NIS databases

SYNOPSIS

     ypinit -m [domainname]
     ypinit -s master_server [domainname]
     ypinit -u [domainname]

DESCRIPTION

     The ypinit utility is a script which sets up databases on a Network Information Service (NIS) master or slave server.

     On a master server, ypinit creates the /var/yp/$DOMAINNAME directory, the /var/yp/ypservers file, and calls /var/yp/Makefile to create and
     populate an initial set of NIS maps.  The maps are created from local source files using the yp_mkdb(8) utility.  The utility will prompt the
     user for a list of servers that support the specified domain; this list is used to populate the ypservers map.

     On a slave server, ypinit creates the /var/yp/$DOMAINNAME, populates it with copies of the NIS maps from the master.  The maps are obtained
     from the master using the ypxfr(8) utility.  The ypinit utility obtains the list of maps to transfer in one of two ways: if the system is
     configured as an NIS client and is bound to the master server, ypinit is able to use the ypwhich(1) utility to obtain a list of maps exported
     by the master server.  If the system is not configured as a client of the NIS master, ypinit uses a hardcoded list of maps, some of which may
     or may not actually exist on the master.  The system administrator can edit the ypinit script and modify the map list if necessary.  Other-
     wise, individual maps can be transferred manually from the master using ypxfr(8).

OPTIONS

     The ypinit utility supports the following options:

     -m [domainname]
	     Set up a master server.  By default, ypinit sets up a server for the system default domain.  The user can override this default by
	     specifying domainname explicitly.	Maps are constructed from scratch using local files as templates using the yp_mkdb(8) utility.

     -s master_server [domainname]
	     Set up a slave server using master_name as the master.  Maps are copied from master_server to the slave using ypxfr(8).  By default,
	     ypinit sets up a server for the system default domain.  The user can override this default by specifying domainname explicitly.

     -u [domainname]
	     Update the ypservers map on the master server.  When a new slave server is added to a domain, its hostname must be added to the
	     ypservers map so that yppush(8) can propagate updates on the master to all of the slaves.

FILES

     /etc/bootparams	    Bootparams source file
     /etc/ethers	    Ethers data source file
     /etc/group 	    Group source file
     /etc/hosts 	    Hostname/IP address source file
     /etc/netid 	    RPC netid source file
     /etc/networks	    Networks source file
     /etc/protocols	    Protocols source file
     /etc/publickey	    RPC public key/secret key source file
     /etc/services	    Services data source file
     /etc/shells	    Shells source file
     /var/yp/master.passwd  Passwd database source file
     /var/yp/netgroup	    Netgroup data source file
     /var/yp/ypservers	    Ypservers source file (generated by ypinit)

SEE ALSO

     mknetid(8), revnetgroup(8), yp(8), yp_mkdb(8), yppush(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

HISTORY

     This version of ypinit is based on the ypinit script in OpenBSD.  It first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS

     The original script was written by Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se>.  It was modified for FreeBSD by Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>.

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								 November 10, 1997							       BSD