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YPINIT(8)							     YPINIT(8)

NAME
       ypinit - build and install yellow pages database

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

DESCRIPTION
       ypinit  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 ALSO
       makedbm(8), ypfiles(5), yppush(8), ypxfr(8), ypmake(8), ypserv(8)

				  4 June 1986			     YPINIT(8)

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