NAME
ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server
SYNOPSYS
ypset [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] server
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
-d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as
returned by domainname(1).
-h hostname
Set the NIS binding on host hostname
instead of the local machine.
SEE ALSO
domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8),
yppoll(8), ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR
ypset is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.