NIS stores its information in DBM files. These are key-value databases. (Every key is unique and has one value). NIS does this so that the information is retained across process restarts. There are some programs to read from a DBM file. Usually, one can use perl to do more interesting things to the data:
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I would like to know if Redhat running NIS ( not NIS +) would have conflict with Solaris running NIS+. Currently I am running NIS+ on Solaris but will be adding RedHat to the network. I seem to be unable to find and information regarding... (2 Replies)
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I just took over the admin role from someone and I wanna setup sendmail (just to send mail from the host) however, after I config all the resolv.conf, nssitch.conf, hosts file and when I try to send a mail out, after I punched ctl-D, it returned he following,
"NIS map mail.aliases... (2 Replies)
We have a RedHat 8.0 NIS master, with a RedHat 8.0 NIS Slave.
We also have a small number of SUSE 9.1 and SUSE 10 machines here for evaluation.
However, no matter what i do, the SUSE machines will not talk to the NIS Servers.
If i broadcast for NIS Servers for the specified NIS domain, it... (1 Reply)
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I have a Solaris client here needs to bind to NIS server in another subnet. Following is the configuration i made on the client,
1) edit /etc/inet/hosts to add an entry of the NIS server -- nserver01
2) execute `domainname` to set local NIS domain to the domain of the NIS server.... (1 Reply)
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Our nis server running on Sun solaris 8 operating system.
I have added a new user in the nis passwd file
& when I am trying to update the file from nis server by using
following command:
# cd /var/yp
# make
updated passwd
It updates the passwd file but does not come back to command... (3 Replies)
I have a DBM database back up file I'd like to convert to mySQL or even to a .CSV, but.......
How can I do it?
The big problem is I have no idea about scripts, how to install them etc. so these methods are basically useless to me.
I guess is there a data base migration software for dummies? (1 Reply)
Hello i have some account already defined on NIS server. I would like to use this account on my machine.
What do i have to do ? Only create the home directory then use the account ??
If the user defined is using the korn shell, and i want to use bash, how can i change it ?? (2 Replies)
I'm creating a scrip for auditing our AIX box's to ensure that they are built according to our system standards. I'm not sure on the logic for checking to see if the NIS and NIS+ services are disabled. any idea's? (2 Replies)