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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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yppush Force Propagation of a Changed NIS Map

Synopsis

/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/yppush [-v][-h host][-d domain][-p #parallel-xfrs]
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Description

The yppush command forces propagation of an NIS map that has changed. yppush copies a new version of a Network Information Service (NIS) map from the master NIS server to the slave NIS servers. yppush is normally run only on the master NIS server by the Makefile in /var/yp after the master databases are changed. It first constructs a list of NIS server hosts by reading the NIS ypservers map within the domain. Keys within the ypservers map are the ASCII names of the machines on which the NIS servers ...

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