Networking Guide
Chapter 7, Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)

Reinitializing a server

Reinitializing a server

If it becomes necessary to reinitialize a server, reexecute the ypinit command on that server. Situations under which it might be necessary to reinitialize a server include a bad configuration wherein a slave or copy-only server or a client was initialized before the master server.

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