YPINIT(8)               COMMAND REFERENCE               YPINIT(8)



NAME
     ypinit - build and install Yellow Pages data base

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/etc/yp/ypinit -m
     ypinit -s master_name

DESCRIPTION
     The program ypinit sets up a Yellow Pages data base on a YP
     (Yellow Pages) server; ypinit can be used to set up a master
     or a slave server.  (You must be the superuser to run it.)
     The program asks a few, self-explanatory  questions, and
     reports success or failure to the terminal.

     Furthermore, ypinit 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 you
     may change the association of maps to masters.  All data
     bases 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 under the FILES
     section).  All such files should be in their traditional
     form, rather than the abbreviated form used on client
     machines.

     A YP data base on a slave server is set up by copying an
     existing data base from a running server.  The master_name
     argument should be the host name 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 the local host is the YP master.

     -s   Set up a slave data base.

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

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



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