September 2000
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/usr/sbin/ypinit [-c][-m][-s master-server]
You can use ypinit to set up an NIS client system. You must be superuser to run this command. You do not need to use ypinit at all if ypbind(1M) is started with the -broadcast option (ypbind is, by default, invoked with this option from the startup script /etc/init.d/rpc).
Normally, ypinit is run only once after the system is installed. You can run it whenever a new NIS server is added to the network or an existing one is decommissioned.
ypinit prompts for a list of NIS servers to bind the client to; this list should be ordered from the closest to the farthest server. Each of these NIS servers must be listed in /etc/hosts along with its IP address. ...