\pard\tx1140\tx2300\tx3440\tx4600\tx5760\tx6900\tx8060\tx9200\tx10360\tx11520\f0\b0\i0\ulnone\fs28\fc0\cf0 Q: My NIS (Yellow Pages) database doesn't seem to be examined correctly. One symptom, for instance, is that ypbind is running fine and ypcat works great, but ~user doesn't work.\
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A: This is likely caused by the lack of a + line in the UNIX
\i flat file
\i0 . If something isn't found in NetInfo, the system looks in the appropriate UNIX flat file. If that file is to "include" the appropriate NIS map, it must have a proper + line in it. At the point where NIS might be examined, it's as if the NetInfo database