YPINIT(8)YPINIT(8)NAMEypinit - build and install yellow pages database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/yp/ypinit -m
ypinit-s master_name
DESCRIPTIONypinit 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 databases are built from scratch, either from
information available to the program at runtime, or from the ASCII data
base files in /etc. 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 master_name 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 ALSOmakedbm(8), ypfiles(5), yppush(8), ypxfr(8), ypmake(8), ypserv(8)
4 June 1986 YPINIT(8)