Commands Used in This Chapter

The following list contains a summary of all the commands introduced in this chapter:

Command	Description
getent	Searches administrative databases for keys.
ldapclient	Configures an LDAP client computer.
make	Creates or updates NIS maps by reading the makefile (/var/yp/ makefile) and the NIS source files.
makedbm	Creates a dbm file for a NIS map. Running the make command initiates the makedbm command, creating or updating maps.
ypcat	Displays the data in a map.
ypinit	Automatically creates NIS maps from the source files. Used to set up NIS servers for the first time, and on clients to initialize the NIS service and update the client's ypservers list.
ypmatch	Displays the value for one or more keys in a specified map.
yppoll	Gets a map version number from a NIS server.
yppush	Manually initiates a push of the NIS maps from the master server to the slave server(s).
ypset	Configures NIS client binding to a specific server.
ypstart	Starts the NIS service.
ypstop	Stops the NIS service.
ypwhich	Lists the name of the NIS server that supplies NIS information to that client or displays the name of the master for a given map.
ypxfr	Pulls a NIS map from the NIS master server to the local host.