Starting and stopping NIS

NIS will start automatically when the system is brought up in multiuser mode (run level 2) and TCP/IP is started. The /etc/tcp startup script will invoke the NIS startup script /etc/nis, which has been initialized with the correct NIS configuration by ypinit.

You can also start NIS from the command line by logging in as root and entering:

/etc/nis start

The first time you start a copy-only server, it will display messages similar to the following as it transfers maps from the NIS master:

   Transferring proto.nam . . .
   map2ascii conversion for proto.nam map succeeded

To stop NIS on a machine, log in as root and enter:

/etc/nis stop

When you stop NIS on a server, clients bound to the server will hang if this was the only server serving the domain. NIS is shut down automatically when the system is taken to run level 0, 1, or 6.

See also:

• ``Planning an NIS configuration''

• ``Setting up an NIS server''

• ``Initializing NIS''

• ``Reinitializing a server''

• ``NIS servers and clients''

• nfs(NADM)

• ``Modifying server attributes''

• ``Modifying the NIS domain name''

• ``Modifying the list of NIS servers''

• ``Modifying existing maps''

• ``Modifying the map list''

• ``Modifying map attributes''

• ``Managing distributed user accounts''

• ``Modifying group attributes on servers''