NIS and linux

[John Reynolds]

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Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com said:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Reynolds [mailto:jreyn at us.ibm.com] 
>> 
>> >Ok.. How do you "update" NIS?
>> >
>> >Ypmake doesn't exist, google isn't helping, and the man 
>> pages flat out 
>> >such in this particular subject.  Ypinit appears to only be used for 
>> >initial NIS Server creation.
>> >:annoyed:
>> 
>> Look in /var/yp for a Makefile; it should be set to check for 
>> updates to /etc/hosts,, /etc/passwd, etc., then generate the 
>> NIS maps and push them. 
>> I usually alias 'ypmake' to 'cd /var/yp; make'.
>> 
>
>That was it.

Whew B-}

>
>Aliasing ypmake, makes sense. Any other system I've worked on uses
>ypmake.  To top it off, unless someone here could find it, it isn't
>covered in the man pages at all.  I had to spend some quality time with
>google to come up with that.
>

Hal Stern's 'Managing NFS and NIS' (O'Reilly) is the canonical reference 
for NIS management. I've had very few issues with NIS that couldn't be 
solved by hitting them with that book.

NIS+ is another matter.  I've found the best way to handle problems with 
NIS+ is to rip it out and use something that works, instead.

John Reynolds
IBM-by-the-Bay
San Francisco CA