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Originally Posted by pludi

How many night shifts you're going to have depends IMO on your own ability and your company. Example: at our company we don't do any real night shifts, but only on-call (always three people), since we don't have a single point of failure. If an application has to be updated, only one of three servers for that job is (planned) down at the same time, so upgrades can be done during business hours.

As for the ability part: if you're really really good you can set up your systems in a way that they can handle anything but the most severe cases by themselves, even if it just means limping until normal office hours.

But in the end the decision is pretty simple: the deviation of your work hours from the usual is directly proportional to the deviation of complexity of your problems from the usual (read: the more complex the problems the higher the probability that they happen when you're not in the office)

Well, that makes me feel a bit better. I really want to do this job because it's exactly what I like doing; and the only thing bugging me is the thought of working a night shift. If I can get away with only working a night shift for a little while or every once in a while, I can deal with that. I just want the majority of my work to be regular working hours.

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ypstart

ypstart(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       ypstart(1M)

NAME

       ypstart, ypstop - Start and stop NIS services

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart

       /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop

DESCRIPTION

       The   ypstart  command is used to start the Network Information Service (NIS). After the host has been configured using the ypinit(1M) com-
       mand, ypstart automatically determines the NIS status of the machine and starts the appropriate daemons.

       The ypstop command is used to stop the  Network Information Service (NIS).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWypu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ypinit(1M), attributes(5)

       System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

NOTES

       The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).  The functionality of the two services remains the same;
       only  the  name	has  changed. The name Yellow Pages is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecommunications PLC, and
       must not be used without permission.

SunOS 5.10							    24 Oct 1996 						       ypstart(1M)