topic Re: NIS Map in Operating System - HP-UX

NIS Map

Hill_1 — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 04:23:08 GMT

Dear all,
As my information, ypservers (NIS map) is created when we configure the NIS Server.
I'm doubtful of the suffix appends to the map. For example, passwd.byname.dir
passwd.byname.pag

May I know the purpose and difference of these files?
Thanks.

Re: NIS Map

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 04:32:45 GMT

Hi,

The following link would help you.
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/20-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/20-toc.html&searchterms=NIS&queryid=20011115-203456

Re: NIS Map

Frank Li — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:05:16 GMT

They are the hash file of the corresponding text file for quick searh. you can " man makedbm" and " man dbm " for some information.

Re: NIS Map

discoverer — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:43:32 GMT

BTW,

The manual way to add yp servers:
* format of ypservers file:
my_nis_server my_nis_server
* build map command:
/usr/sbin/makedbm /var/yp/source/ypservers /var/yp/my_domain/ypservers

/discoverer