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	'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization.		'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization. It is supported on [[IRIX 5.3]] and possibly earlier versions.

	== Transfer NIS Master In IRIX ==		== Transfer NIS Master In IRIX ==

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 8:12am dragon  /etc/yp %ls aliases                      local.make.script.pre-6.5.x auto.direct                  mac auto.home..."

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Created page with "'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization. == Transfer NIS Master In IRIX == Tar up the directory with the NIS flat files live in and copy it over to the new master. <pre> 8:12am dragon /etc/yp %ls aliases local.make.script.pre-6.5.x auto.direct mac auto.home..."

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'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization.

== Transfer NIS Master In IRIX ==
Tar up the directory with the NIS flat files live in and copy it over to the new master. <pre>
8:12am dragon /etc/yp %ls
aliases local.make.script.pre-6.5.x
auto.direct mac
auto.home netgroup
auto.master netid
auto.net networks
auto_master nsswitch.conf.nisserv
automount.options passwd
bootparams protocols
capability rpc
clearance rpc.passwd.options
ethers services
group ypdomain
hosts ypmaster.options
jlimits ypservers
local.make.script
</pre>Retain a copy of the various system files that are created or changed.

Check /var/yp/ for the presence of custom local scripts :<pre>
8:13am dragon /var/yp %ls
local.make.script ypmake
local.make.script.pre-6.5.x ypmake.log
make.script ypxfr_1pd
mdbm_dump ypxfr_1perday
mdbm_parse ypxfr_1perhour
updaters ypxfr_1ph
ypdomain ypxfr_2pd
ypinit ypxfr_2perday
</pre>Check make.script to verify that it hasn't been hand edited.

Next, check /etc/config/yp* :<pre>
8:15am dragon /etc/config %foreach f ( yp* )

foreach? echo $f ; cat $f ; echo "\n"
foreach? end
yp
on

ypmaster
on

ypmaster.options
DIR=/etc/yp
PWFILE=/etc/yp/passwd
ALIASES=/etc/yp/aliases

ypserv
on

8:18am dragon /etc/config %grep yp * | grep -v typ | grep -v Typ
rpc.passwd.options:/etc/yp/passwd
ypmaster.options:DIR=/etc/yp
ypmaster.options:PWFILE=/etc/yp/passwd
ypmaster.options:ALIASES=/etc/yp/aliases
</pre>yppasswd synchronizes passwords and users across.

Once these are checked, run ypinit -m on the new server and follow up with a ypinit -s on any slave systems This will take care of changing the yp/ypmaster/ypserv file contents from off to on. The one thing ypinit will not do is create /var/yp/ypdomain. This file needs to exist and the only thing it should contain is the NIS domain name. Create this file on all machines in this domain , be they the master, the slaves, or the clients.

One last thing:<pre>
8:40am dragon /etc/yp %cat nsswitch.conf.nisserv
#
# Cat this file onto the end of /var/ns/nsswitch.conf.nisserv
# and /var/ns/domains/<nisdomain>/nsswitch.conf
#
auto.master: nisserv
auto.direct: nisserv
auto.net: nisserv
auto.home: nisserv
</pre>If using maps that aren't in the default list, the slaveswon't accept maps they don't already have copies of, and the easiest way to make sure propagation occurs properly is to have everything in place when running ypinit on them (there are ways to add maps to slaves after the fact, but this is much more straightforward).

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