ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server
ypset [
-d domain ] [
-h hostname ]
server
In order to run
ypset,
ypbind must be initiated with the
-ypset or
-ypsetme options. See
ypbind(8).
ypset
tells
ypbind to get NIS services for the specified
domain from
the
ypserv(8) process running on
server.
In cases where several hosts on the local net are supplying NIS services, it is
possible for
ypbind to rebind to another host even while you attempt to
find out if the
ypset operation succeeded. For example, you can type:
- example% ypset host1
- example% ypwhich
- host2
which can be confusing. This is a function of the NIS subsystem's attempt to
know always a running NIS server, and occurs when host1 does not respond to
ypbind because it is not running ypserv (or is overloaded), and host2, running
ypserv, gets the binding.
Server indicates the NIS server to bind to, and must be specified as a
name or an IP address. This will work only if the node has a current valid
binding for the domain in question, and
ypbind has been set to allow
use of
ypset. In most cases,
server should be specified as an IP
address.
-
-d domain
- Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned
by domainname(8).
-
-h hostname
- Set the NIS binding on host hostname
instead of the local machine.
domainname(8),
ypbind(8),
ypcat(8),
ypmatch(1),
ypserv(8),
yppoll(8),
ypwhich(1)
ypset is part of the
yp-tools package, which was written by
Thorsten Kukuk <
[email protected]>.