[BBLISA] Help setting up NIS (or alternative to NIS.)

[Bill Bogstad]

On 9/20/05, Eddy Harvey <masmojo at nedharvey.com> wrote:
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>[scenario where NIS master frys, how do you convert NIS slave server to master]
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> Anybody have any good suggestions to help me with my reliability fears?

Backups of the master?  Yeah, that's kind of flippant, but I still
think it's worth considering.
You could also probably use the ypcat program to dump entire maps from
the NIS slave server and massage them back into the correct format (if
they aren't
already).

Bill Bogstad