September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Setting Up an NIS Server
Setting up an NIS server involves the following steps:
Set a domain name for NIS using domainname.
Edit the ypMakefile, which identifies which databases to build and what sources to use in building them.
Copy the ypMakefile to /var/yp/Makefile.
Run make from the /var/yp directory, which builds the databases and initializes the server.
Start ypserv, the NIS server daemon.