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YPINIT(8)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            YPINIT(8)



NAME
     ypinit - build and install yellow pages database

SYNOPSIS
     ypinit -m
     ypinit -s master_name

DESCRIPTION
     _y_p_i_n_i_t sets up a yellow pages database on a YP server.  It
     can be used to set up a master or a slave server.  You must
     be the superuser to run it.  It asks a few, self-explanatory
     questions, and reports success or failure to the terminal.

     It sets up a master server using the simple model in which
     that server is master to all maps in the data base.  This is
     the way to bootstrap the YP system; later if you want you
     can change the association of maps to masters.  All data-
     bases are built from scratch, either from information avail-
     able to the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data base
     files in /_e_t_c.  These files are listed below under FILES .
     All such files should be in their "traditional" form, rather
     than the abbreviated form used on client machines.

     A YP database on a slave server is set up by copying an
     existing database from a running server.  The _m_a_s_t_e_r__n_a_m_e
     argument should be the hostname of YP server (either the
     master server for all the maps, or a server on which the
     data base is up-to-date and stable).

     Refer to ypfiles(5) and ypserv(8) for an overview of the
     yellow pages.

OPTIONS
     -m   Indicates that the local host is to be the YP master.

     -s   Set up a slave database.

FILES
     /etc/passwd
     /etc/group
     /etc/hosts
     /etc/networks
     /etc/services
     /etc/protocols
     /etc/netgroup
     /etc/ethers

SEE ALSO
     makedbm(8), ypfiles(5), yppush(8), ypxfr(8), ypmake(8),
     ypserv(8)





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