September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Administering NIS
NIS is enabled by setting up NIS servers and NIS clients. The descriptions given here describe NIS setup using ypserv, which does not support a master/slave server configuration. All NIS commands depend on the RPC rpcbind program, so make sure it is installed and running before setting up NIS.