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- From: fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
- Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
- Message-ID: <scvxszg@rpi.edu>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: mml0.meche.rpi.edu
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <yvent.711983630@theseas> <1992Jul24.144817.23307@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:50:20 GMT
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- nicholls writes:
- >In article <yvent.711983630@theseas> yvent@ntua.gr (Yannis Ventikos) writes:
- >>
- >>I have been reading the comp.sys.sun.admin newsgroup for a couple of
- >>months now ...
- >>You can do anything you want on a Sun: run NIS or don't, run primary...
- >>yvent@areti.marinentua.ariadne-t.gr
- >>yvent@theseas.ntua.gr (news server)
- >
- >I wouldn't mind setting up NIS if I knew what the heck it was.
- >I recently did a 'grep NIS /usr/man/man?/*' and came up with
- >nothing. If Sun thinks NIS is so great, why isn't it in the manual?
-
- NIS is yellow pages. see /usr/man/man?/yp*. To get started, just pick
- one machine to be a master and type "ypinit -m" on it. Pick a few
- others to be slave yp servers and type "ypinit -s mastername" on them.
- Finally, start up ypbind on all your machines.
-
- Also, run yppasswdd on the master server.
-
- Starting up yp is not a big deal.
-
- If the ypdomain extends across networks, use ypxfr to transfer the
- maps. Use the crontabs found in /usr/etc/yp.
-
- Before starting, be sure to get the latest yp security patches by anon
- ftp from ftp.uu.net in /systems/sun/sun-dist. Get patches 100201,
- 100377, and 100482.
-
- Brian
-