yp.conf(5) [suse man page]

YP.CONF(5)							     ypbind-mt								YP.CONF(5)

NAME

       yp.conf - NIS binding configuration file

DESCRIPTION

       The file /etc/yp.conf is read from ypbind(8) at startup or when receiving signal SIGHUP. The entries are used for the initial binding.
       Valid entries are

       domain nisdomain server hostname
	   Use server hostname for the domain nisdomain. You could have more then one entry of this type for a single domain.

       domain nisdomain broadcast
	   Use broadcast on the local net for domain nisdomain.

       domain nisdomain slp
	   Query the local running SLP server for hosts running ypserv and distributing nisdomain. This option is only available, if ypbind was
	   compiled with SLP support.

       ypserver hostname
	   Use server hostname for the local domain.

       broadcast
	   If no other server is given or all of them are not reachable, try a broadcast call for the default domain to find a server.

       If for a specific domain the broadcast option and fixed server are given, ypbind-mt tries at first the given servers before falling back to
       broadcasting for a running server.

SEE ALSO

       ypbind(8)

AUTHOR

       ypbind-mt was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>.

ypbind-mt							    06/19/2009								YP.CONF(5)

ypset(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  ypset(8)

NAME

       ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server

SYNOPSYS

       ypset [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] server

DESCRIPTION

       In   order  to run ypset, ypbind must be initiated with the -ypset or -ypsetme options.	See ypbind(8).	ypset tells ypbind to get NIS ser-
       vices for the specified domain from the ypserv(8) process running on server.

       In cases where several hosts on the local net are supplying NIS services, it is possible for ypbind to rebind to another  host  even  while
       you attempt to find out if the ypset operation succeeded. For example, you can type:

       example% ypset host1
       example% ypwhich
       host2
       which  can  be confusing. This is a function of the NIS subsystem's attempt to know always a running NIS server, and occurs when host1 does
       not respond to ypbind because it is not running ypserv (or is overloaded), and host2, running ypserv, gets the binding.
       Server indicates the NIS server to bind to,  and must be specified as a name or an IP address. This will work only if the node has  a  cur-
       rent  valid  binding for the domain in question, and ypbind has been set to allow use of ypset.	In most  cases, server should be specified
       as an IP address.
OPTIONS

       -d domain
	      Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(1).
       -h hostname
	      Set the NIS binding on host hostname
	       instead of the local machine.
SEE ALSO

       domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), yppoll(8), ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR

       ypset is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.

YP Tools 2.9							     May 1998								  ypset(8)