RE: NIS and linux

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Reynolds [mailto:jreyn us ibm com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:32 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: NIS and linux
> 
> >Ok.. How do you "update" NIS?
> >
> >Ypmake doesn't exist, google isn't helping, and the man 
> pages flat out 
> >such in this particular subject.  Ypinit appears to only be used for 
> >initial NIS Server creation.
> >:annoyed:
> 
> Look in /var/yp for a Makefile; it should be set to check for 
> updates to /etc/hosts,, /etc/passwd, etc., then generate the 
> NIS maps and push them. 
> I usually alias 'ypmake' to 'cd /var/yp; make'.
> 

That was it.

Aliasing ypmake, makes sense. Any other system I've worked on uses
ypmake.  To top it off, unless someone here could find it, it isn't
covered in the man pages at all.  I had to spend some quality time with
google to come up with that.