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19 .TH ypset 8 "May 1998" "YP Tools 2.8"
21 ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server
36 must be initiated with the
45 to get NIS services for the specified
52 In cases where several hosts on the local net are supplying NIS services,
55 to rebind to another host even while you attempt to find out if the
57 operation succeeded. For example, you can type:
61 \f3example% ypset host1
68 which can be confusing. This is a function of the NIS subsystem's
69 attempt to know always a running NIS server, and occurs when host1
70 does not respond to ypbind because it is not running ypserv (or is
71 overloaded), and host2, running ypserv, gets the binding.
75 indicates the NIS server to bind to, and must be specified as a name
76 or an IP address. This will work only if the node has a current valid
77 binding for the domain in question, and
79 has been set to allow use of
83 should be specified as an IP address.
88 Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by
92 Set the NIS binding on host
94 instead of the local machine.
108 package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.